Attachments is corrupted in Mail

Hi
This morning I got a bit of a chock: I was looking for a 'old' mail that I have send, and was the trying to open a attached PDF file when I got the message:
Error opening the file, the file is damaged and cannot be repaired (Translated as I use a Danish OS X)
At first I did not pay so much attention, but then I found another mail with attachments, same problem, then I got chocked. The mail account is a Google mail, so I went to the web interface, found the mail, and there the attachment works.
Bottom line is that it looks like Mail in OS X Lion screw up the attachments.
I have - as many others - discovered that Mail is 'less than perfect' on OS X Lion, e.g 8 out 10 times when I try to search Mail Crashes.
This happend on My 2 weeks old IMac 27", with a clean installation of Lion.
The mail was originally send from my MacBook Pro, I opened the mail on the Macbook Pro, and it works (MacBook Pro also runns OS X Lion, but a 'upgraded' version, not clean installation)
Any hints or suggestion on what happened to my attachments?
Kind regards
Steen

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