Opening or saving photo attachment; add to iphoto option on save

On my computer, in the Mail application, I always see the "Add to iPhoto" option on the Save button when someone has sent me a photo regardless of whether it is one or several. Does anyone know if there's some way to make this option show or not? I was working with someone on their first version Intel iMac which we had just upgraded to Leopard, and on one e-mail with several photos, the option showed. However, on an e-mail with only one picture it did not. Does anyone know what makes the "Add to iPhoto" option show or not show?
My other question is regarding the contextual menu option "Open with" that shows when I right-click a photo received as an attachment in an e-mail. On my computer, when I right-click and then click this "Open with" option, I see a list of several options for opening the picture, one of which is "Import and View with iPhoto." When I looked at this on the person's computer referenced above, there were no programs listed, only the "other" option which opens a window for you to locate the program you want to use. I did not populate the list on my computer--the choices simply were there when I clicked "Open With." Does anyone know what makes these options appear in this list?
I ask because this person I am helping is not very computer savvy and these are the easiest ways for her to get pictures sent to her into her iPhoto library. I've tried searching Apple support and these boards, but haven't come up with an answer. Does it possibly have anything to do with the version of iPhoto you are running, or is it something to do with Mail? Thanks for any help on this.
Message was edited by: Barbara Batchelder

Ernie,
Thanks for your response. I took a look at the article you mention and will perhaps try replacing the preferences file mentioned if no other solution comes to light. I won't be able to try this right away as I won't be at the person's house right away. She is the main user of the computer and does have Admin privileges.
She had called me a week or so ago wanting to know how to get a photo someone sent her into her iPhoto library, and when I was explaining how to do it, the options available to me on my computer were not available on hers. So, when I was there yesterday, after upgrading her system to Leopard, I went into Mail and was going to show her how to get the photo into iPhoto. I thought maybe the difference was I already had Leopard and she was still using Tiger. However, the "Add to iPhoto" option wasn't listed on the Save menu in the mail with the picture nor was the "Open With" list populated. However, when I went to another message in her mail with several pictures attached, the "Add to iPhoto" option was there on the Save menu. That got me curious about why these things would be different. Why would the "Add to iPhoto" option show on a message with multiple pictures and not on the message with just one picture? On my computer, I get the message regardless if there is one picture or several in the message.
I see that article you referenced mentions the list getting populated based on programs that are used, so maybe I should try opening various programs and seeing if that gets them added.
Any other thoughts you have would be welcome.
Barbara

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