''send page'' as e-mail not working

About a month ago, the IE feature ''send page'' as an e-mail stopped
working. Over the years I've used that feature DAILY to send articles
to friends with my notes. I do NOT want to send the page as an
''attachment'' or send only a URL. I want to send the entire page as an
e-mail as I've always done for years now. There's no reason I shouldn't
be able to.

But, starting about a month ago, suddenly Outlook will only let me send
as an attachment and even Outlook Express will only let me send as a
URL. (I tried using OE just to see if it would work.) On my company
computer this feature still works fine, but on my home computer it's
suddenly invalid.

The error message I get is "the current document can not be sent as
mail. Would you like to send a short cut instead? (Outlook Express) or
sometimes in Outlook the e-mail message opens up as empty but the page
is already made into an attachment. I do not want this! I want the page
INSIDE the e-mail message as it always has been.

I use Windows XP Pro, IE 6, Outlook 2003, and OE 6, using a computer I
built myself almost a year ago. SOMETHING has changed. I had downloaded
the usual Windows and Office patches and updates around that time, so I
suspect something Microsoft slipped in my computer has now broken that
IE feature. I did a system restore back to the earliest date I could
but to no avail.

Anyone else encounter this or have any ideas? I'm fairly knowledgeable
about computers and software -- I build my own computers and have done
so for friends too. But, this one stumps me. I saw one reference to
someone else having this problem in the news groups, but the suggestion
was to try disabling firewall and anti-virus. I did that temporarily,
but problem still persisted. I do think it has something to do with a
mis-guided security update or patch.

I am willing to edit the registry if I have to and I love that feature
so much I'm thinking about reformatting my hard drive if I have to and
starting over.

I just want this feature to work again. Thanks.