Workaround for MailTo Yahoo! Mail Helper Application bug?

I don't know if there is an active bug report for this, but for Firefox 8 with the MailTo Helper Application set to Yahoo! Mail, choosing [i]File: Send Link[/i] opens the Yahoo mail form and inserts [b][i]mailto:?To=[/i]<link>[/b] into the [b]To:[/b] field, instead of simply inserting [b]<link>[/b] into the Body.
I tried setting up a new MailTo Helper Application via a Javascript similar to those prescribed here: [url]http://www.davidgilson.co.uk/2009/09/make-webmail-firefoxs-default-mail-client[/url], but Firefox did not seem to respond to the script.
I also installed GmailDefaultMaker (which also supports Yahoo Mail and several other webmails) and tried to use that to straighten out Firefox's Yahoo Mail setup, but it accomplished nothing.
Working with the preferences in About:Config got me nowhere.
Editing MimeTypes.rdf with Windows XP Wordpad was promising. (Notepad doesn't work due to the wrong kind of character encoding.) Replacing every instance of "http://compose.mail.yahoo.com/?To=%s" with "http://compose.mail.yahoo.com/?Body=%s" results in [b][i]mailto:?Body=[/i]<link>[/b] being inserted into the Body. That is an improvement, but nowhere could I find enough documentation about MimeTypes.rdf to figure out how to get rid of [b][i]mailto:?To=[/i][/b].
(For documentation, there is [url]http://kb.mozillazine.org/MimeTypes.rdf[/url], but that is incomplete.)
Does anyone have a workaround?

Tom, thanks for your offer. Here is the explanation from my service provider, which includes a quote of the raw source. They're pointing the finger squarely at Apple Mail. Beats me, can you shed any light? It would be much appreciated...
...quote...
Our system admins did more research into this issue and we've found the source of why these messages cannot be displayed.
What follows is the raw html from one of the messages from Aug 11;
<HTML><BODY style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space;
-khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">This one sent as html.<BR><DIV>
<SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate;
border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;
font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto;
-khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px;
-apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN
class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate;
border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial;
font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto;
-khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px;
-apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN
Notice the style=3D"
3D is equal to the = sign in the windows character map and is being written effectively twice, once in its windows format and the other in unicode, this makes the html invalid and unreadable by some readers and fails all validators that we've have put it through.
Some applications may be able to correctly determine the duplicate nature of the characters and render the html but not all.
...unquote...

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