Attachments causing temporary SBOD

When I get attachments in emails coming to me, they show up fine, but if I try to drag them to the desktop or something, nothing happens for a couple seconds, then the spinning beachball appears, and it takes about 30-40 seconds for mail to come back. When it does come back, I can drag the attachments out without problem.
The attachments are showing up in the email (for pics), so it's not an issue of them not being downloaded from the server.
This happens in multiple IMAP accounts. Note, I also get a SBOD for about 10-20 seconds when attaching a pic (happens in the choose file dialog upon clicking "Choose File")
Any ideas?
I've tried re-ordering connections and disabling parallels nat connections in network prefs already and doing the vacuum thing and rebuilding the mailbox, and rebuilding disk permissions (and this problem persists over restarts and on different networks).
Note, that my PowerMac at home which has the same mail accounts does not have this problem. Only happens on my MBP.
Thanks!

I have tested this with my IMAP account, and with Mail on my Intel Mac Pro, and do not experience any delay or spinning beachball.
In Mail Preferences/Accounts/Advanced for any of these IMAP accounts, what your selections, particularly beneath keeping copies for offline viewing?
Did you test using the Save button, btw?
Ernie

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