Sounds to me like you are adjusting your die wrong. WHat kind of die are you using? Most seating dies, like RCBS, have separate, but linked, adjustments for seating depth and crimping. If you set your seating depth first, then adjust your die down to adjust the crimp properly, you just adjusted down your seating depth, too. The problem is, once you crimp that bullet its hard to adjust seating depth because the crimp prevents the bullet from moving.
IIRC, the correct process is....
1. Create a dummy round seated to the correct length. (No powder or primer)
2. Back out the seater plug ("plunger") so it is way out, and adjust crimp properly, using the dummy round.
3. Lower the seater plug ("plunger") until it rests against the bullet.
You die is now adjusted to crimp and seat at the same time.
Some people prefer to seat and then crimp as separate processes. To do that, seat all your bullets. Then back out the plunger, adjust the die for crimp, and then run them through again to crimp.
Or get a Lee factory crimp die, and don't crimp on the seating die.
Have I confused you yet?