Microsoft Word saving documents as .docx

I'm not sure if this is the right place to be posting the question- if there is a different forum that it belongs in please let me know!
I downloaded Microsoft Office for Home & Student 2008, and now it is saving my documents as .docx. As a result, emailing Word attachments has proven itself troublesome as the recipients cannot open the files. I have tried altering the .docx to .doc, but it doesn't make any difference. Somewhere along the line the compatibility is being destroyed- I don't know what to do, or even where to start looking.
Please help!
Kelly Mae

if there is a different forum that it belongs in please let me know!
http://www.officeformac.com/productforums\
I don't know what to do, or even where to start looking.
File menu --> Save As.. --> Format --> Word 97-2004 Document

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