Smart Quotes in Mail?

In Lion quotation marks and apostrophes were automatically changed to smart quotes/apostrophes. In Mountain Lion they are all regular smart quotes/apostrophes and it drives me nuts. Anyone know why they are no longer automatically smart quotes? (I know that I can use option+], etc to manually insert smart quotes, but that's a pain. I've also made sure in System Preferences --> Language and Text -->

You're awesome! And quick! Really easy fix, but I had no idea the option was there. Thanks a lot.

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