When selecting SMS/Text Message iPHone 4 changes it to MMS message!

I am having a weird problem with my iPhone 4 - when I select "text message" either by starting a text from the "messages" menu or from within "contacts" it sometimes (about 50% of the time) tries to change the message into an MMS. If I don't attach an image it won't allow me to send even though there is only text in the message.
I can't seem to find a wqay to change it from an MMS to a standard text message so end up cutting the text, switching the phone off and on again and trying to paste the same text into a new message. This only works some of the time .. very curious to know if anyone else has this problem as I LOVE this phone but this particular thing is driving me crazy!! Thanks

May be that it has become necessary to swap out one application module for another to initiate the SMS Application.
With all the new features recently added by Apple such as the iTunes Store, Apple may have had to implement an application switching algorithm to keep the maximum memory available for videos, music, ringtones, etc. storage.
Just one possible reason for a delay - application switchout (paging).

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