Attachments in Apple Mail scrambled

When I try to look at attachments (PDFs and Word docs) in Apple Mail they sometimes (but not always) get converted into scrambled text that is embedded at the bottom of the email. Like this....
----NEXT_BM_AB726E6E67FB42CBAC2285AF00AF803D
Content-Type: application/pdf; name="=?iso-8859-1?Q?Travel_Itinerary_-_,1094144.pdf?="
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Description: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Travel_Itinerary_-_,1094144.pdf?Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?iso-8859-1?Q?_Travel_Itinerary_-,1094144.pdf?="
Content-ID: <B00E5BC3912B47F89037FC84414DADBD>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If I look on webmail the attachment is there as a PDF and can be opened and read OK, but on Apple Mail its all messed up.
What can I do to stop this happening?

HI that is the way many attachments would look in Raw Source...
Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="image001.jpg"
Content-Description: image001.jpg
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="image001.jpg"; size=1823;
creation-date="Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:02:12 GMT";
modification-date="Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:02:12 GMT"
Content-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEAYABgAAD/2wBDAAgGBgcGBQgHBwcJCQgKDBQNDAsLDBkSEw8UHRofHh0a
HBwgJC4nICIsIxwcKDcpLDAxNDQ0Hyc5PTgyPC4zNDL/2wBDAQkJCQwLDBgNDRgyIRwhMjIyMjIy
MjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjIyMjL/wAARCAApAEoDASIA
AhEBAxEB/8QAHwAAAQUBAQEBAQEAAAAAAAAAAAECAwQFBgcICQoL/8QAtRAAAgEDAwIEAwUFBAQA
AAF9AQIDAAQRBRIhMUEGE1FhByJxFDKBkaEII0KxwRVS0fAkM2JyggkKFhcYGRolJicoKSo0NTY3
Only thing that looks strange there is the last part of this...
application/pdf; name="=?

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