Mail attachments to Windows machines?

I am trying to send two images as attachments to a user on a Windows machine. The attachments are appearing in-line in the body of the email and do not show as attachments on Windows.
I am attaching the 2 images by clicking the paper clip on the new mail message and browsing to the image location to select them. I am selecting both images and they appear in-line in my outgoing message and as attachments. I have checked the 'Send Windows Friendly' box. The Windows recipient can only see the in-line images.
Am I doing something wrong?

Was having the same issue and found this on another forum and it worked like a charm!
WZZZ NYC
Feb 19, 2012 11:44 AM (in response to Jackpurcell)
Open Terminal in Applications>Utilities and paste the below code in. Then hit return.
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing 1
To reverse the setting, change the 1 to a 0.

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