Workflow to attach given file to new email and send to specified recipient

I am new to (and excited about) Automator. My first aim is to create a workflow that creates a new email to be sent to a client, attaches a given file to that e-mail, and sends the email (need to do this for 35, and eventually 100 clients; hence the need for automation). The workflow I have, so far consists of:
1 New Mail Message
2 Get Specified Finder Items
3 Add Attachments to Front Message
4 Send Outgoing Message
Steps 1-3 seem to work, but the message, is not sent. Can anyone explain why?
Steven
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

I'm not sure why the mail message isn't getting sent in this workflow, could be a bug? If you're okay with using AppleScript, we've hashed together a neat script on this forum before:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1220736
It'll let you do a bunch of other stuff too like put the filenames in your subject line and add a form letter addressed to the recipient.

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2: download OpenOffice.org, or NeoOffice, see if you like that and save it in the native format, usuall smaller file (beware compatibility)
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http://yourip/~your_short_username/name_of_exceldocument.xls
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Rock on!

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