Attachments won't open

I'm having trouble with opening attachments from Mail. I have all of the updates for the Mac. The mail account is IMAP
From one source, sequencing files. I can open the text files, but not the chromatograms. This is true whether I save them to disk, drag them to the correct application, or double click them. If I log into webmail and download the chromatograms, they open fine. Generally SOME of the chromatograms will open without going to webmail, but MOST WILL NOT. All can be opened after downloading from webmail. They send attachments either for windows, or for mac. I don't know what client they send emails with. I have only noticed the problem when I check for mac. I no longer do that. This problem started well before the 10.4.5 patch.
Today I recieived an e-mail from a co-worker (on an iMac G5 with Tiger and all of the updates, using Mail, with an IMAP account). Two of the three attached word documents could not be opened. Once again, going to webmail and downloading allowed me to open the file.
Sending word documents should not be a challenge.

Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
I am aware, and have investigated some problems of display and caching with IMAP accounts. My tests have shown, in that regard, that not every IMAP server exhibits the same behavior, with display and caching, and I am also aware that Mail 2.0 in Tiger can have these problems, but not Mail 1.3.11 in Panther.
I was granted access to an IMAP server that was being used when some major problems of displaying messages with large attachments were noticed. I have made some reports to appropriate people at Apple, and hope -- but do not know the extent -- that they are being worked on.
I think this issue and some sluggish behavior may all be related to how Mail 2.0 is caching messages when downloaded for single view, or all for Offline viewing.
While we wait, the webmail route may be all that is available to you, unless you have a Mac than is running 10.3.9 and Mail 1.3.x.
A topic discussing .mac and IMAP activity sluggishness is at:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1621960&#1621960
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