Pics or vids sent by texting wont open

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I have a motodroid and my wife has an HTC Eris. Whenever she sends me a pic attachment through text messaging, I receive the text and the little download button, but no preview. When I hit the little "download" button it keeps giving me download error messages. I can send them just fine and she receives them with no problems. My daughter can send them to me all day long with no problems.

Also whenever I send my wife a long text, I always get a text message from Verizon telling me that my text message was sent as plain text with no enhancements or something like that. Whats with that?

Thanks