Vista - E-mailing a photo

When I try to e-mail a photo from within the Windows Photo Gallery I am
running into a problem.

When I highlight a photo and then click on e-mail in the upper tool bar and
then select the picture size I want and then click on "attach", the attach
flies window disappears and I am back to the photo gallery without my e-mail
program opening.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A couple of questions come to mind, what program do you use for your email and is it set as your "default". There seems to be a few email clients that do not respond to the "defaults" in Vista.
If you are using "windows mail" try setting the defaults in "start", "Default programs" etc. see if this helps. I use Thunderbird as my email client and tried it out Windows Photo gallery opened Thunderbird and attached the photo no with problem.
Good luck RainPure