Problems sending to Outlook 2003

So some people I send emails too are on Outlook 2003 and I'm facing heavy criticisms. 2 things come up:
a) When typing in Rich Text, the receiver gets a ? whenever I do a double space after a full stop, a question mark appears in their screen view.
I reckon this has to do with the text encoding?
b) Secondly, when I make attachments like PDFs or JPGs, they will get an additional txt file together with the attachment. So if I attach 3 PDFs, there will be 3 txt files also attached to the email. Furthermore as we on Macs just drag and drop attachments into mails (NOT all the time at the end), all text that I type after the attachment, will then be put into another text attachment to the email, thus shortening my actual email.
Any ideas why? Are we (the Mac character standards) at fault OR can we turn it back onto Outlook?

This may not completely answer you questions...
Why not just send messages in plain text? I always use plain text.
When attaching, how about waiting to the end. And instead of doing drag and drop to the compose window, click on the Attach button and drag and drop to the file selection dialog window. That way, all attachments will be at the end.
Also, if you want better interoperability with Outlook, you may need to invest in Office 2004 (2008 due early 2008) and use Entourage. I'll bet those emails will look better between Entourage and Outlook. Or you might try the free Thunderbird email client to see if it works better for you.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

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