Send Mail problem / Advance with dialog

[Rick Sample]

I solved this one by stuffing a  WF container object from the decision
task with the Actual Agent.
I would rather use a given object to do this so any help on the below
format would be appreciated.
 
Next question, how do I get the decision step to display after the send
mail. I have to
go back to the inbox and select the same decision step again to
complete processing the task.
 
Isn't "Advance with dialog" supposed to execute the background task
(send mail step) then automatically
pull the decision task just execute without having to go back into the
inbox and re-execute the
decision task I was just working on?
 
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4.6C
 
I have a decision step task. The user selects an option from this task
to send mail
back to himself. (mail copy of data).
 
The send mail task is a background SELFITEM-SENDTASKDESCRIPTION task
with following binding.
 
_WI_Object_Id   &WORKITEMWITHSELFMETH&
AddressStrings  &WORKITEMWITHSELFMETH.EXECUTEDBYUSER.NAMEWITHLEADINGUS&
 
When I look at the log for this step,
WORKITEMWITHSELFMETH.EXECUTEDBYUSER.NAMEWITHLEADINGUS
show the correct person USusername. This is not working!
 
All I want to do is send a mail back to the person executing the task
via a background send mail.