Weird email behavior in iPhone Photos app

On the weekend I took a few photos with my iPhone and I emailed one of them to my family, and everything seemed to be okay.
Now every time I open the "Photos" app it automatically opens the "New Message" window with a photo in the body as if I didn't already send the email. If I hit cancel and then "Delete draft" then next time I open photos, the same "new message window appears". I even tried sending off the email again to see if that would make it go away and it still comes up every time I open the Photos app.
The photo that appears in the "New Message" window is one that I sent out on Saturday and already deleted from my Camera Roll yet it keeps coming up.
I didn't have this problem with iPhone OS 3.x so it seems like a bug in 4.0 and 4.0.1. Has anybody else noticed this, or am I the only one?
Any ideas?

Ya I have this problem too! same situation. I sent a pic via email, it sent fine, now everytime I open the photo app it starts up a new email message. So far what I've tried and has been working for the moment is doing a hard reset on the iphone. It has cleared it up for the time being, we'll see if it returns or not.

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Ok, I replicated it and I don't like it! I didn't use the one you marked cause I couldn't call it up properly but I did Bing
transparent gifs and loaded up 3, one was totally invisible in the thumbnail and I could clearly see one of my pics perfectly in the thumbnail but when I brought it to page the gif filled the frame.
I have no idea where the pic came from, I mean I recognize it but from where in the album I have no idea.
Oh yeah, I was wrong about the first pic coming to page, it wasn't the same image but a different one...and I have no idea how the one that came up, (what i thought was the underlying pic) did, or how it got there or even from where.
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What happened now and most probably before was a 'transparent gif' or a partially transparent gif like the one I spoke of first that I could see the edge of or the outer perimeter of, the underlining image with the gif taking up say 3/4 of the thumbnail; this it what it was.
This is totally apparent to me now because of your having me import a totally transparent gif which was invisible over my pic, thus the freaky part I didn't like...keying the thumbnail with one thing and ending up with something totally different when brought to page.
Still doesn't explain where this silly iPad is grabbing these pics from?
But here's something funny; my camera roll shows say 9,200 pics but my, 'iMy System' app say I have like 11,300 which I always thought was a fluke, that it was just reading wrong but maybe it's seeing something we're not. What if all those pics we're deleting to save space or just generally culling have never left the system? Maybe that goofy app is really reading the true count!
Those others up above us here who mentioned privacy concerns.. this could be whats going on, there's a ghost
in the machine and it be our old pics and god knows what else floating around in that iPads memory.
Ok, I'm crazy tired and I have to wrap this up. Least now we know how to replicate this but on the other hand I think we opened up an even bigger can of worms... the mystery of where all those images are hiding in our iPads?
I haven't hardwired to a computer since I upgraded to ios5 so whatever's going on here, leastwise for me is iPad
based and can't be blamed for synching issues like you discuss up above unless what I'm grabbing here is old stuff
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