IPhoto Corrupting Mail.app Signatures

As a PGP user, I attach a copy of my public key to the signature of my emails. I have just started using iPhoto and have found that if one uses the email function from iPhoto (which exports the selected picture to a mail compose pane) then the attached file in the signature becomes corrupted: it loses its correct file type, becoming a generic 'document' entitled 'Unknown'.
This does not seem to be an issue with the .asc file format PGP uses.
After some testing this morning, I found that the same occurs if one has .pdf, .txt, or .rtf files in one's mail signature.
I would be interested to know:
1. If others know of a solution/workaround for this problem, or
2. if others can confirm that this problem occurs on their systems (and if so, which versions of Mail, iPhoto and the system are being used).
I'd like to know if this is a replicable problem with others before lodging a bug report with Apple.
iMac G5 20 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3) Mail 2.0.5 (746/746.2), iPhoto 5.0.4 (263)
iMac G5 20 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Did you check to see if any of the recipients had filters in place to ignore or delete HTML emails, or emails with attachments? If not, that could be the issue. Have you tried testing these by sending messages from one of your email accounts to a different one to see if you receive them?
As for a limit, there might be, but Apple has never stated that there is, so unless you reach a point where it refuses to accept or use a particular signature, I'd have to guess the answer is 'No'. There'd be no point in limiting content, since as long as an email uses valid HTML or CSS markup, you should be able to include it in a signature; but testing before actually using is always advised.
Mulder

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