If you still want to try with panoramic photography, here is a very short tutorial on how to stitch them:

http://panoye.blogspot.com/2008/02/tutorial-panoramic-photos...

Oh yes, please include this information. I would like to know too.

one quick tip for taking panaroma picture: - turn your camera clock-wise so that you can take vertical slices of your pictures which will gave you more height.

in this photo there are 5 or 6 vertical slices of photo. http://www.flickr.com/photos/orionlogic/2456850403/sizes/l/