Mail attachments to windows users

when iI send mail with attachments to Windows users, they can't click on the attachment to view it, they can only download the file. I am sending the mail with windows friendly attchments selected. Any ideas on how I can fix this??

I use a PC laptop running Windows XP at work and we use Outlook as our email client.
I have the PC laptop at home with me and I just sent an email with Mail on my PB to my business email address. I used RTF for message composition, inserted a signature composed with RTF and added a PDF file as an attachment with Send Windows Friendly selected.
I downloaded the message and attachment with Outlook and when opening the message, I was able to open the attachment from within the message by double-clicking on the attached file.
I searched for an available option or setting with Outlook that would prevent me from doing this but I couldn't find one.
Long story short, I did not experience the same as you are reporting so based on my test, this is not a Mail.app problem unless you are describing the problem in a way that I'm not understanding.

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