Mail acting strange around signatures

Hi Folks
Not sure when this started, but recently.
In 10.6.8 OS X Mail, tying near a signature has become unpredictable. I typem hit return (as expected), new paragraph (as expected) then return and my cursor ends up below the signature.
OR - I try to paste things in and it will put it below the sig, not where the cursor is.
I'm not a noob, I'm not on crack - This isn't user error, it can be replicated in any number of messages and on both my tower (with 33 sigs) and MBP (which has 3).
Any one else have this problem? Any fix?

Hi
This is the specific forum for OS X Server. You may have more luck posting in the Lion specific Forum here:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.7_lion
However I'll try and answer your questions:
"Any one else have this problem?"
I have seen something very similar.
"Any fix?"
What I did was firstly copying my existing signature. I then deleted it. Quit Mail. Launched it and pasted the copied signature back again. The problem went away. I only have one signature and for me not such a big problem or difficult a fix. For you and with that amount of signatures you may find you can't be arsed?
HTH?
Tony

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