Preview.app's "Mail Document" & Entourage?

Preview.app's "Mail Document" & Entourage?
Has anyone noticed that Apple's Preview.app will allow you to email a PDF as an attachment, but it will only work with Apple's Mail.app. Of course I don't use Mail.app, I use Entourage 2008 (Exchange client etc). My OS and Mail.app all agree that my default email application is Entourage 2008, not Mail.app. But Preview.app won't play along.
Has anyone else noticed this undocumented limitation?
I love Preview, and I'm glad I don't have to jack with Acrobat Reader, er, Adobe Reader, anymore (at least for basic PDF functionality).
I cracked open Preview.app's plist preference files hoping to find a "mail with..." value that could be tweaked. No luck.

Agreed - this is annoying. I just toyed around with this program (http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/) but couldn't find any obvious/easy fix.
This is one area where Windows, dare I say it, does better, but only if the application author has coded a File, Send To.. menu item. I get the feeling that the OS X "Services" menu can be set up to do this using an Applescript but I don't know how.
Would be really good if there was a fix for this - I'm an Exchange/Entourage user so have very little choice.
regards
Ash

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regards
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