Blank, non-loading emails in Snow Leopard Mail

Hi,
I'm really confused. I am upgrading to a new computer, an iMac i5, and just transferred my main IMAP-based mail account.
Some messages - it seems to be messages with attachments only - are displaying blank.
They load up fine on my backup machine - a Powerbook G4 running Tiger 10.4.11 - but simply won't display on Mail 4.2.
Does anybody have any idea what might be causing this behaviour?
Thanks in advance,
Jamie

Hi,
I'm sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear. I have no issue sending attachments. Its receiving them.
The issue you have is I believe caused by a failure in other mail readers to correctly parse an attachment which is placed 'inline' by Mail - usually if your recipient is on a PC. It works both ways - sometimes a PC attachment appears on a Mac as 'winmail.dat' if it has been placed inline, and putting it at the end of the mail sometimes helps the program to interpret it better; a more reliable alternative is a ZIP file.
But the problem I have is with received emails.
The same mails display fine on Tiger - so its something specific to my Leopard machine, or on the way from the server.
Other emails with attachments from the same client work fine, and this has happened with more than one client. They are both on PCs but its not specific to one client.
My working presumption is that there is an issue caused by the laptop and the desktop both trying to access the IMAP database at the same time. This used to cause mailbox lockups in POP servers, with very different results - the send/receive authentication would then fail and the ISP might have to reset the mailbox.
However this is not borne out by the fact that (a) I have a Palm pre which is continually accessing the same database and (b) I've never seen this issue on the laptop either before or after the desktop started accessing things.
Nonetheless I will try for the present to keep the laptop signed out so the desktop is the only computer accessing the database, and see where that gets me.
If anybody has any help with regard to the underlying reason why the email might display completely blank, I would be very grateful as this might help identify the cause of the problem.

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