Mail forwarded to Hotmail has MIME attachment

OSX 10.4.5/Mail 2.0.7
I've been having a persistent problem for some time now. When I'm out of the office, I have a rule set up to forward my mail to my Hotmail account, so that I receive an alert on my cell phone (Verizon). The mail arrives at Hotmail with a MIME attachment, making it unreadable on the phone thru the Hotmail web browser function.
I've got Mail set up to compose in Plain Text, and the option for replying in the same format is not checked.
If the incomming message has an attachment in the first place, I guess I can understand why it might get MIMEd when forwarded; but even text only messages get MIMEd.
Any suggestions?

Hmmm... good suggestion. I do have signatures, but they're plain text.
But in a possibly related issue, my signatures are buggy in Mail. I have them set up to auto insert depending on the account I'm sending the mail from (one is work, one personal) but they sometimes it doesn't choose the right one, and if I switch the sending account after the message is composed (but before I send), any attachment is deleted when the signature changes. But if I hit undo, the attachment comes back. I've always chalked that up to Mail's general buggyness... or perhaps some wierdness in synching with my laptop. But maybe it's related?
I just deleted my signatures and rebuilt them from scratch. I wonder if I should check the box "always match my default font"?

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