Mac Mail doesn't send with parentheses in signature...

I met with someone at the Apple Genius Bar today to try and troubleshoot a problem I've been having with sending mail via Comcast.
In short we were able to find a workaround I decided to post what we concluded in the case that someone else can clarify or benefit from what we learned... which is that any parentheses in the e-mail signature prevents the e-mail from being sent.
We attempted, almost 40 e-mails, of various configurations of the signature which contained a phone number. regardless of its position, formatting including newline characters, when the phone number didn't have the parentheses the mail sent.
And all these tests occurred with a fresh new e-mail account which by default set perfectly every time. Attachments, pasted and graphics, made no difference. All the previous mailboxes were also removed and plans were trashed so we were starting from a clean start.
This is with Mail version 4.5 and OS 10.6.8 on an iMac... I can't go to mail 5 I need to run Rosetta.

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