Ok, I'm pretty sure it's happening because it's trying to load from the same directory. I'm going to guess that you have search engine friendly urls turned on.
What I would do is change all of the filenames to the full url
So, something like:
$body = <<<EOF
<center>
In your
<a href="http://www.domain.com/path/to/chevrolet.wav">
<img src="http://www.domain.com/path/to/bowtie4.gif" width="140" height="59" alt="Dinah says Hi!!"></a>
</center>
EOF;