Mail dock icon does not create new message when a file is dragged onto it

After installing Snow Leopard, dragging a file to the the Mail icon in the dock no longer creates a new message with the file attached. Mail is brought forward as the active application, just no new message window.
This was the behavior in earlier versions of mail.
Is there a preference, or any other change, that can be changed to allow drag-and-drop of a file to create a new message with an attachment?
--James

There are some issues with drag and drop. I was having the same issue with Mail with SL, but I didn't check after 10.6.1. However, I just installed a new hard drive, and migrated. Mail works for me, now.
It didn't work with my 10.6 which had been upgraded with multiple builds in the beta. I assumed it was related to the other drag and drop issues. Now that I check it again, I don't think so.

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