Attachments won't attach and it's driving me crazy!

Hi. I originally posted this question (below) in the Tiger forums (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=916743), where I got some good information about making sure it wasn't a preferences/cache/HD problem. I've tried the things suggested but I still have my attachment problem :/
Has anybody over here heard of this kind of problem before?
I don't use Mail, however I'm not sure where else to turn for help.
Problem details:
I am unable to attach anything (.doc, .pdf, .jpg) to an email, regardless of the size of the attachment. Specifically: when I choose something to attach, then click "attach," the status bar/wheel thinger goes on and on and on. I was able to get something to attach in world client a couple of times after waiting approx. 10 minutes, but haven't been able to do that again.
The problem has been happening for about two weeks. For the prior two years I have had the same set up & emailed attachments several times a day without incident.
All my email accounts are web-based (hotmail, gmail & world client) and the symptoms are the same with all of them.
I have tried using three different browsers: Safari, Firefox and IE.
Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5; Mac OS X v. 10.3.9
I have a PC on the same network & can send attachments with no problems from that computer. But of course that's not the computer I regularly work on.
Apple support says "It's not your computer, check with your network admin or your ISP." My network admin says "It's not the network, it's probably your mac, and you know I don't do macs!" And I don't have user support from my ISP, so I dunno which direction their fingers would point (haha). (I should say here that Apple support instructed me to create a new user account & check again, but the problem persisted even with the new user account.)
Any help would be greatly, enormously, immensely appreciated.

Also, now it will not sync my photos! I've been an iPhone user for 3 years and never had this happen before....Grrrrrrr!!!

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