Can't open sent Word documents

I have been getting more and more emails with Word attachments. When I try to download them, a Word document icon appears on my desktop, but when it is downloaded, the icon changes to a folder with the document name, but in a folder. When I open the folder it has three items in it. First, there is a file with an html icon labeled "[Content Types].xml", then, there are two folders, "_rels"; and "theme".
I cannot figure out how to open these emails. I can send them to my wife's PC, and she can open them, save them to rtf and send them to me. I am getting more and more of these attachments, so I need to open them directly.
I wonder if these come from Vista PCs. Does anyone know what they are and how I can get them to open on my iMac? Thanks.

Mac users using Word 2004 who receive a Word 2008 for Mac, (or Word 2007 for Windows) document, will not be albe to read this without having the Open XML Converter installed, which can be downloaded from Microsoft.
Go to this page:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx
and click on the right under Most Popular, 'Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0'
This opens a window at the bottom of the page. Scroll that to the bottom and click on English.dmg, and it will download for you as a disk image, which can be installed in the usual way.
After installation you can open and read .xml formatted Word 2008 documents in Word 2004.

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