Attachments received as text in Mail

I have my email set-up as an IMAP account using Mail 3.5 under OS 10.5.6. I am having a reoccurring problem receiving attachments as plain text within the message. It happens with a variety of file types: .jpg, .xls, .igs. Rather than displaying the attached file available for download, the message contains a bunch of scrambled characters. Often, when I have the sender email again, the message displays correctly. I've tried clearing cache, but it does not help. I even re-created the IMAP account within Mail. It seems like others have posted similar problems, but haven't yet found a solution. The weird thing, is I can access the attachment from the IMAP web interface of my host.
I do have growl mail and mail iconizer, but have tried removing, but it didn't help.
Any ideas? This is annoying.

Similar/same problem here.
Sometimes, the attachments aren't recognized as attachment when downloaded using an IMAP Mail account.
The fun is that downloading the same message using the terminal the "header" of the attachment is different from that one inside the message downloaded from Mail.
Here there are the two different attachment's headers.
FTP downloaded message (and working)
------=NextPart_001_020101C9D4AD.FC916EB0--
------=NextPart_000_020001C9D4AD.FC916EB0
Content-Type: application/pdf;
name="marelago.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="marelago.pdf"
Mail's downloaded message
------=NextPart_001_020101C9D4AD.FC916EB0--
------=NextPart_000_020001C9D4AD.FC916EB0
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=marelago.pdf
Content-Type: application/pdf;
name=marelago.pdf
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Seems that Mail changes this attachment's header.
There is some Mail setting that I am not able to find or...it's a bug?

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