email fonts not cooperating

[Mark S]

I just "upgraded" to 6.1 and I can't get the email fonts to use a
proportional font.

Everything comes out in "New Courier" regardless of how I set my
preferences.

I have preferences set to Times for variable width font and I specify
"variable width font" for displaying plain text messages but everything
still comes out as courier.

I'm feeling stupid here.

/Mark