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Help Samsung Galaxy S 4G Force Closes from MMS

I have a Samsung Galaxy S 4G from T-Mobile. I've read other posts where people are getting "force close" errors from every message they send or receive. I get a "force close" from ONLY 1 contact! I can receive MMS messages from other contacts. Here is everything that i have tried so far:

1. Deleting the contact and having the contact send me a message.
2. Battery Pull
3. Hard Reset
4. Had the contact successfully send an MMS message to an HTC Sensation phone and i successfully forwarded that MMS to my phone.
5. One T-Mobile Tech insisted that my contact's phone was too old. Kyrocera Lingo with Cricket Mobile.
6. Contact sent an MMS to my old Blackberry (non android) phone using the SIM card from the Galaxy, no problem.
7. One T-Mobile Tech insisted that it was not a T-Mobile network issue and only a problem with the phone itself. T-Mobile sent me a brand new phone. I put my SIM card, battery and SD Card in the new phone, had contact send me an MMS and it still Force Closed.
8. Upgraded to Gingerbread. Still get the force close message.
9. My contact send an MMS to the Samsung Tech and he received it with no problem. He has a Samsung Galaxy II.

T-Mobile has officially closed the trouble ticket and suggested i contact Samsung. 2 online chats with Samsung Tech Reps were fruitless.
A Voice Support rep has been working on this issue with engineers and EVERYONE that i talk to is baffled as to why this is happening.

Anyone care to take a stab??
 
UPDATE:
After working all the way up to Level 3 Tech Support with Samsung, it was proclaimed to be a compatability issue between my phone and my friend's phone, a Kyocera Lingo. The rep with Samsung had a Galaxy S and inserted a SIM card. My friend sent him an MMS and the Galaxy could not open the message. The rep tried to open up the message several times and was successful after downloading and installing SAVE MMS from the Android Market. Now all of my MMS messages are in one folder and if i want to view them (as opposed to a thumbnail preview) i save them to my SD card. Unfortunately, if the MMS comes with sound, the two are separated into files which are played separately. I guess this is an issue that can only be resolved by one of us getting a different phone.
I hope this helps ANYONE out there with a similar problem.
 
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