Your reason is probably correct -- as that was my first guess. But
your solution does not work. the "mail to URL" add it is exactly what
I do NOT want. it only sends the URL which is the problem -- that is
what is happening now. I want to send the page INSIDE the e-mail as a
message that I can annotate, not as an attachment (OUtlookr) or as a
URL (Outlook Express).

as for cross posting, I found a group I thought would fit the the
problem (outlook group). then I realized a couple of others might also
have some expertise and be affected by the problem (IE6 abd Outlook
Express), but I had to search for them. I posted as I found them.

I solved the problem by reinstalling windows xp as an "upgrade" even
though it was exactly the same version of windows. reinstalling like
that suddenly revertts that feature back to normal. I will be very
careful of reinstalling any security enhancements.