Mail turning messages into attachments

Hello. Apologies if this is covered elsewhere - I couldn't find any related discussions.
Seemingly since my last update - to 10.6.2 - mail is doing something weird... Emails - particularly ones with attachments in them - are arriving in my inbox with the text part of the email message that follows an attachment (like an inline graphic) converted to an attachment - "ATT00001.htm". Additionally, if the email was a reply, then the included original text is another attachment - "ATT00002.htm".
It appears the emails are truncated... I've been ignoring those pesky attachments!
Additional info: using hosted exchange as my email server. Experiencing the problem when receiving mail from others in my company.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
w.

I just started to notice this after someone replied to a message I sent them. Look through my sent pile, I've probably been confusing a lot of people over the last few months with random attachments. After a bit of troubleshooting I've come up with a workaround.
Any message body after an attachment gets converted to the ATT0000X.htm, so the workaround is to ensure all your attachments are placed inline at the end of your message -- even after your signature lines.
If you want to test yourself, place an attachement in the middle of your signature and watch the first half of your signature show up, while the second half ends up in a "ATT0000X.htm" file.
This isn't a problem in the receiving mail reader, but a problem in the way mail is composing the message.

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