OS 10.8.4 Mail erases messages when switching to plain text

This problem seems to persist -- in MAC OS 10.8.4 Mountain Lion, the mail program deletes the just typed email message when I switch to plain text. It does not do it every time, but it does this seemingly at random. If I do not re-read my emails right after clicking plain text, I send a blank email... This never happened in Snow Leopard -- is there a fix or a patch for this ?

Has anyone on the Mac Mail or OSX Support Team tried to debug this... ? Most of my emails are plain text, and I encounter this problem 50x per day! Thanks for your help...

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