Can't attach movie correctly

Something has changed my ability to attach a viewable movie to an email message. Up until recently, movies like .wmv would attach as a little icon in the message that, when clicked would open Windows Media player for viewing. However, .mpg movies would run right in the message window. This worked well.
The new development is that .mpg's that I now attach to a message do appear in the message window, but they run in a tiny little icon, where they used to appear as the original approx. 340 X 280 format. The icon-sized thing is not worth sending, but I can't figure how to restore normal behavior. Sometimes I get multiple copies of the same little movie icon in the message window.
The upgrade to 10.4.11 that I did yesterday is suspect. When I boot from my other drive that is running 10.4.10, the attached movies appear as expect, as 340 x 280 in the message window. What happened, and how do I change it back in 10.4.11?
iMac 17" 1 GHz, 768M RAM.

The symptom went away during troubleshooting. I have another bootable drive with 10.4.10, and when I booted from it, the symptom went away. Booted from 10.4.11, and I still had the problem.
I reverted the 10.4.11 drive to 10.4.10 using SuperDuper, and everything was then fine when booting from either drive. I first suspected Quicktime, so I upgraded Quicktime 7.2 to QT 7.3. No problem. I then re-upgraded OS X from 10.4.10 to 10.4.11, but the symptom has not reappeared. So for the time being, it ain't broke anymore.

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