Cannot link prims more than 3m apart...

Is anyone else having this problem? I was scripting, then went to link, and told 'too far apart'... and adjust... and same prob... and adjust, until finally at a paltry 3m apart, it allowed a link to be made.

Edit: okay, oddly when I scale the shapes up, I can link them much farther apart. My initial test were with .5x.5x.5 objects... Is this standard and somehow I've managed not to notice until now?

Edit 2: Observation: two cubes 10x10x.5 ... link ... edit linked parts> stretch ... drag faces such that they withdrawl from one another as far as possible. Size restrictions seem to remain in somewhat inexplicable demensions (that is, trying to return each to .5x.5x.5, I am defaulted to 10x.5x.5... the X axis doesn't want to go. I fail to see the logic in this limitation.

Edit 3: In an effort to embrace these limitations, I did the following with unexected results:
Two 10x.5x.5 spheres 10m apart. Linking succeeds. Intent is to have them rotate using llTargetOmega. Success. *Now* I want to reduce the apparent size, so I dimple both sides of each sphere (.48/.52). THE LINK SIMPLY DISSAPEARS. no messages, no warning, no odd phantom boundaries... the link simply fails and my child prim ceases to spin ala llTargetOmega.

This sounds like the Link Distance Formula!

Please see:

/111/c7/36283/1.html

I'll move this to Building for further discussion, Seph.