Mail signatures seen as attachments in PC's.

Hi there.
I am using Mail for a .Mac, Hotmail, Gmail and a company account and when I create a signature it is seen as an attachment on Windows machines.
Is it a Mac thing, and Intel thing (since the MacBook is a fairly 'green' machine so far) or just a setting I am not aware of.
I ask the wise online Mac wizards for guidance...
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1GB RAM, 120 GB HD

Hi Ernie.
Thanks for your reply. I had heard about rich text/plain text approach and when I try your suggestion and I go into Format the only option is 'make rich text' and it is greyed out. If I go into Mail preferences I can chose "make plain text" under Composing, which is what I just did.
So you know, I was having a problem with spaces in my email compositions that were showing up as question marks on Windows machines since buying my MacBook. I posted to this forum and a user suggestion switching to plain text but if I really wanted to use rich text, that I should go into Terminal and type: defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset "UTF-8"
I did this and it worked great. No more spaces, however I just noticed recently that it did not fix the signature problem. Based on the above and your suggestion I just switched to plain text and some of my old email now look really crappy, like MSDOS characters from the '80s. Is this really the only option? Will my outgoing emails look like this on other peoples screens?
Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks.

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When you send an attachment to Microsoft Outlook, the way that it handles rich text causes issues when you put the attachment icon in the body of the email.
I noticed that it only happens with non-image files. So .doc, .docx, etc. It doesn't cause problems when attaching .jpg or .pdf.
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Hello
I have searched all over the place about this problem and not come across a solution. I know there are lots of discussions on here about it but nothing helps.
I have a signature in Mail which consists of some text and an object (.jpeg file).
When sending emails with just text to people using Windows email programs ie Outlook, the message and signature comes out fine.
If I add an attachment say a word file or pdf, the Signature .jpeg turns into an attachment, so then the recipient has 2 attachments on the email and my signature does not appear correctly.
Like I said, I have searched for hours trying to find a solution, and was wondering if anyone or Apple has managed to resolve this yet and I just haven't found it.
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As a matter of fact I have never seen it mentioned before. Perhaps only a few people need such an ego-trip every time they send an email.
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Aaron,
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