Problem emailing embedded photos

I have been emailing photos with iPhoto for a year (since I bought my iMac) with no problems at all. Recently, when I try to email a photo, I select the size in iPhoto (e.g. Medium), Mail opens, the correct size photo flashes in the mail message and is immediately replaced by a mini thumbnail. The image size within Mail is set to Medium, but it's not working as the mini thumbnail is not Medium.
If I toggle the size setting within Mail to another size, then back to Medium, it seems to work; a medium-sized photo appears to be embedded in the mail message. However, when I tested this (sent the message to myself) the email I received only included the mini thumbnail again. (There was a separate attachment with the photo at the correct size.)
I get the same results as above when I attach the photo from within Mail.
Any ideas how to correct this?
P.S. My mail is set to compose in Rich text and should embed the photos (as it did for the past year). I suspect there is a bug in Mail due to a software update....

This was quite an interesting test. First of all, with regard to what you are assuming to be a size issue with the message sent directly through Mail, without any involvement of iPhoto, you must remember that when Mail utilizes View in Place, the image display in the message has nothing to do with the actual size of the image file. This is not any thumbnail, or preview, but simply Mail sizing the image display to your screen and Mail window.
On my G4 using Tiger and Mail 2.1.3, the displayed image looked very small, exactly like a thumbnail, but that is not the case. Apparently this is what you are also seeing with Mail 3.6 in 10.5.8, although I did not compare. However, on my Mac Pro, in Mail 4.2 in 10.6.3, the image ever so briefly had the same appearance, but quickly changed to fill the screen. Mail uses Preview as the render engine, and something is different in Mail 4.2 from what you must be seeing in Mail 3.6.
If you open either image from the message with, say Photoshop or Graphic converter, you will see that each image has the very same pixel dimensions. The only difference is in the JPEG compression that has been applied to each file, which makes the file size different, but not the original size of the photo as measured in pixels. Thus iPhoto is not downsizing the image as it would if using a setting other than Actual Size.
I am still investigating how the compression is selected in iPhoto that causes the difference in file size, and is behind the appearance when viewing in place in a message. It also appears to impact how Mail 2.1.3 was seeing the file, and the options offered when you control-click on the image. It is not the expected behavior. However, use of the Slideshow button in the message will show you the same size image in either case.
More when I found out more.
Ernie

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