UTL_SMTP Encoding Issue

I've written a PL/SQL package for emailing.
The issue that I'm having is that the final encoded stream has extra characters ( exclamation mark + new line + space ) "randomly" scattered throughout it.
If the email is plain-text, it's not a big deal, it just looks messy and unprofessional.
However, when sending HTML formatted emails, those extra characters can break HTML tag logic and thus, visually, hide some data/text.
This package allows for the creation of nicely formatted HTML alert emails which have a common look-and-feel.
However, when I view the email in my email viewer (+MS Outlook 2007+), there are additional characters inserted in the email source. However, if I user DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE( ... ) to view the dynamically created HTML code, created at run-time, it's clean.
I had previously created a similar process in UNIX Shell Script and a 2nd in webMethods.
The webMethods version also had some issues with the encoding (+we had to use base64 encoding to fix that+), however using base64 didn't fix the issue that I'm having in ORACLE.
My package code can be found at:
[http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=5b5b57bc23b48b866e7203eb87368129f0607387acaaf72db99f3f1679ee9294]
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
To reproduce my issues:
BEGIN
WM_EMAIL_HANDLER.SEND_ALERT ( in_processName => 'Test Maker',
in_msg => 'Something gone done broke. You''d better fix it.',
in_subject_msg => 'Something Broke',
in_threatLevel => 5,
in_to => WM_EMAIL_HANDLER.ARRAY( '[email protected]' ),
in_from => '[email protected]',
in_fromName => 'Oracle Database Account <[email protected]>',
in_smtp_hostname => 'yourMailHost',
in_smtp_portnum => 'yourMailHostPort' );
END;
Extra Info:
<ul>
<li>Oracle 10g running on Solaris UNIX</li>
<li>MS Exchange Server is our MAIL server</li>
<li>We're using mail host port 25</li>
</ul>

Could you post the code which you are using to send the mail. I need to send mail from a oracle procedure. I posted a thread with subject "sending mail from oracle procedure".
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