HTML e-mail question: hotmail and images

[quasi]

I'm currently working on an HTML e-mail for a client. All the images are pointed correctly (not embedded, but on a server) and they all show up when received in Outlook, but for some reason, one of the images does not show up when it is received in Hotmail (both Mac and PC) or Earthlink.

The only thing I can think of is that the image (the one not showing up in Hotmail) has a "hspace=15" tag associated with it as well as an "align=left" so that adjacent text will wrap around it. Is Hotmail not able to display images with text wrap or hspacing/vspacing? Is this an obscure quirk associated Hotmail that I'm not aware of?

I'm asking this from home and thought I'd ask you all before I go back to work Monday to test this theory. Jeez, you'd think I'd enjoy the weekend and forget about it.

[tedster]

If the code is all valid, it seems unlikely that Hotmail would not show any images at all, even if the wrap and hspace gets ignored.

HTML email is not my thing (in fact, I often climb my soapbox about it), so I'm hoping there will be other input for you.

[quasi]

Thanks for the reply. This is my first forage into HTML e-mail and I already dislike it. It's like writing HTML 1.0. If I never do it again, I won't be sorry.