Apple Mail displaying no pictures

I sent out an email promo using MadMimi and a handful of pictures. It was fine during the editing process, but when I opened the email I'd sent to myself there were no pictures...only a small question mark in the center of the image border along with the image name in the upper left-hand corner. How can I get the images to display properly? I called a friend who had also received the email and was told they could see all the images just fine.

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Why are we having so many problems using Apple Mail? These little things are causing us the most problems. They are very frustrating. We just want to use the email program and send photos, etc without thinking about it. It shouldn't be this difficult.
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Thanks for your reply.
Yes, I have been performing the daily/weekly/monthly maintenance.
The address book losing data is somewhat of a less concern for me. I always have backups. I'm just trying to get a good setup for my wife so she can send any kind of email she needs to and have it display reliably on whichever platform/client the receipient happens to be on. Yes, most of her contacts are Windows users who are probably using Outlook or Outlook Express, but there are a few Mac users as well.
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