Attachments in Mail show as a Plugin Icon

We have just installed 10.5.6 on our Intel iMac at work and when we receive or attach anything to a message (pdf's or images) it shows up as a blue plugin icon, When the message is sent the person who receives the message can see the the attachment ok.
Anyone any ideas on why this is happening and what we can do to correct it?
Regards
Adrian

The problem has been sorted the plugins within the Mail app where in a folder called Plugins Disabled we moved them back to the plugins folder and everything worked fine.

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