Attachments appearing as inline text

Certain attachments that I receive in Mail appear as inline text. This makes it impossible to save the attachment and open it in another program.
The most aggravating is .cpp files. These contents of these attached files all appear as inline text, one after another. If I want to work with these files, I have to figure out where the division between files is, copy and paste everything before that division into a new file, and fix the formatting line-by-line. How frustrating.
Please help me stop this behavior, or at least tell me a way to ALSO save the files, or something. Otherwise I'll have to change email clients, and I've gotten so used to Mail.

Clayton,
What computer and email client is the sender using to send these to you? I am guessing they are being sent in a message with Rich Text Format, or HTML and becoming "involved"? Some servers might even cause this, especially if SPAM filtering is in force.
Is the last header about attachments? Is there a black triangle beside this final header, and are there Save and Slideshow buttons?
More info, please.
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I recently set up Mail on my iMac with an IMAP account. It looks like the emails I receive with PDF attachments appear as inline text within the body of the email when I download them from the IMAP server. I am able to log onto the IMAP server via its webmail interface, and download the PDF as a separate attachment that way.
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I don't think that's exactly what is happening with me. It doesn't appear as an inline image, but rather as an inline "octet stream" which looks like it is the computer code that underlies the image. E.g.:
------=_NextPart_00101C8173E.31943807
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Attachments show up inline as base64 (?) text

Sometimes I receive email with attachments that show up inline in the text as base64 (maybe) encoded text instead of as attachments. Sometimes attachments appear correctly. I don't know what makes the difference, though the bad attachments seem to appear most often when something has been forwarded multiple times. My 80-year old mom, using a windows box, receives lots of such mail from her friends and sometimes forwards them to me.
Well, I know those attachments aren't really bad -- because when the base64 encoded text appears, I can view the mail using my ISP's web mail instead of Mac Mail and the attachment appears fine. It's just in Mac Mail that the attachment is unviewable. A small excerpt appears below.
Normally I just ignore those emails. But now, my mom needs a new computer. Her 330 MHz wintel box is on it's last legs. I want to recommend a Mac to her, but can't really do that if some of her emails she receives have attachments that are going to be unviewable.
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Subject: FW: Re: FW: Texas Justice by old ladies -
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