Apple mail not displaying properly

My first time in this forum. Hopefully, you can help. I am having a problem in Apple Mail in Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3.
Some e-mails from the same sender appear fine with images and links properly displayed, yet other times I only see text with underlined links. For example, I receive promotional e-mails from Land's End (a retailer in the U.S.) with images of the items. Some e-mails display perfectly and others are as below in the cut and paste. (I have noticed the problem frequently with Google news alerts.)
Any idea of what settings I should change? I am very confused because some mails arrive fine, and others are like below.
P.S. I am a new user of iMac, so please be patient if I do not understand well your instructions.
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------msg_border
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:18:18 -0700
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----alt_border_1"
------alt_border_1
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
View this email on a mobile device click here=2E=20
http://email=2Elandsend=2Ecom/servlet/website/PersonalizedForm?sLENlgLPl_TX=
UCUV_fhIpsLEyLJpipLgmbK_EUVWXWUAELtHpsEtIhJrUFntHpsDJhtELtHps_hMMLk_gNtILkE=
UUCXCZUTWWT

Thanks for your suggestion. I do not think your proposed solution will work for me.
1) In my desperation, I erased my hard drive and even reformatted it (with the help of Apple Care). I then opened Apple Mail with a completely clear hard drive and system. The problem still occurred. For that reason, I do not think it is the INBOX.mbox file that caused the problem.
2) My iMac that is less than a month old is now in the repair shop. It apparently has a faulty logic board and USB port. Hopefully, the Apple Mail will work after those parts are replaced.

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