Outlook 2007 and "Email the selected items" creates plain text email...

I use the "Email the selected items" feature of Windows XP to email pictures. I just select the pictures I want to email and click "Email the selected items" button under the "File and Folder Tasks" panel. The problem is that regardless of what my default formatting composition setting is in outlook (which is set to HTML), this always creates a plain text email. How can I make it so this creates an HTML formatted email?

It won't help - but Vista and Outlook 2003 does the same thing. Am sure you figured out its just two clicks away to change the format one the mail is up.

I'd like to select pictures in Windows Explorer (using XP) then select "E-mail the selected items" and have the pictures appear embedded in the email message (being included as attachments also is fine). But the important thing is to have the pictures appear embedded in the email message. When I select "Email the selected items" my Outlook client is launched in plain text format so that when I hit send, there are no embedded pictures--only attachments. If I change the Format of the message to HTML before I send it, the pictures still don't show up embedded in the message. A friend of mine does this with his xp machine and it works fine--I haven't had an opportunity to see how his machine is configured. Can anyone help.
-Jim

Start the mail message in Outlook and then click INSERT->Picture.

Steve--thanks for getting back to me. Yes, that works, but it creates another problem. The person receiving the email cannot then save the pictures--i.e. there is no way for the recipient to save the pictures to their local machine. So I really want an easy way to send pictures embedded in the email message and allow the recipient to save them to their local machine. The "Email the selected items" in windows explorer seems to work for others but I can't get it to work due to Outlook 2003 launching in plain text format (despite the fact that the default is html). Any ideas?
-JIm