Why is my Outlook 2000 not creating attachments?!

So, I’m running Microsoft 2000 on a Windows XP computer and it has all of a sudden stopped allowing me to send attachments. It lets me add them using the paper clip ( insert icon, I believe) and they appear in the document. It doesn’t give me any errors when I attempt to attach them or when I send the document. But if I view m y previously sent items, the attachment doesn’t show up anymore. And when I send the e-mail out, the recipient does not have the attachment either. I’ve reinstalled the entire program (Outlook 2000 and the 97 Office Suite) and I still can’t get it to attach. Any ideas?

What is the size of the attachment you are trying to send? I think there is a default limit of 10 MB on attachments, and I don’t recall if it will display an error message, or just send the message without it as you describe.

I was testing it with a blank Word document.