Mail not recognizing digital certificate

Hi all,
I had a digital certificate generated by .Mac which worked fine in mail.
Today I noticed that mail stopped giving me the option to digitally singed my mails.
Did someone notice this behavior? Is there a fix?
Thanks,
Ziv

Anna,
I am having the same issue. I am on a new laptop without my cert, so I downloaded it again from thawte but it only installs the public key, not the private key.

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