Buggy stationery, recipients' blank replies

Over the last couple of years, I've found Mac Mail's stationery to be a mixed blessing. While it can save me time when I have boilerplate I don't want to keep copying and pasting, it's also given me grief in a couple of big ways.
One is related to attachments I include on e-mails that originated as custom stationery. Certain recipients tell me that after getting mail from me that has attachments, their own mail suddenly has text that's defaulted to white, so that while they can type, they can't see what they're typing. One of them uses Thunderbird, though I'm not sure the problem is limited to T-bird recipients. For the longest time I wasn't able to isolate the problem, but now I'm pretty sure it's happening only with stationery-generated mail I send. If I start a message without stationery and then include attachments, there isn't a problem.
I found this out when my custom stationery quit working. I was suddenly not able to use any custom stationery without my Mail program hanging or crashing. This issue has been documented in the forums. And though there are some fixes and work-arounds, I was never able to get these solutions to work. I was only able to go back to using stationery when I upgraded from OS 10.5 to 10.6. And lo and behold, once I started sending people attachments with stationery again, they had the invisible text.
Of course I'm looking for a solution to the invisible text problem, but I'm also just interested in whether others have experienced it. A quick search through the forums didn't turn anything up for me.
Rob

Well, actually. . .
118540 is the 6.2 patch line. All patches are "t-patch", until they're released to the public, at which point, they become "patches".
118542 would be for Linux, just as 118541 would be for Solaris X86. These are UWC patches.
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