Question marks inside diamond

Hello all,
I was trying to find a topic to reply to, but everything with this issue has been archived. So here's a new post. When I send Apple Mail to someone and they reply, my original message is peppered with diamond shapes with a question mark inside. No logical culprit...double space, no... sometimes after a period, sometimes not. Here's a paragraph I screen shot.
http://www.rainbowtech.info/questionmarkd.jpg
I don't know if the receipient sees this or not. Text with these stray symbols doesn't retain them when pasted into a text file. When pasted into Photoshop CD2 with text, they come out as a question mark. They don't paste as a graphic. They don't show up in TextSoap or CleanText.
Whasup? Any ideas?
Shari

Is there an encoding that is better when sending to
people from that Windows world?
Yes, rich text with uniform UTF-8 encoding.
I read the linked page.
Then you have instructions for Fix B and Fix C to do that.
isn't the real solution for Apple to
correct this in Leopard?
I would not count on it. Apple is a hardware company. How much priority do you think they are likely to give to reprogramming a tiny piece of a tiny piece of what matters to Apple in order accomodate incredibly stupid bugs in a program produced by the word's foremost software company?
If the fixes are not convenient and it's a big problem, best to use another email client like Thunderbird or Entourage.

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