Can (or How Does) "Organize by conversations" cause Beach Balls of Death?

Ok, I will be upfront here... This is driving me MAD!
I have been using Mac for over 10 years now (since OS 9) and this is the FIRST time that I have ever seen these types of problems.
Mail is hanging all the time and causing all sorts of jams.
THE CURRENT PROBLEM
I say "current" because I have fixed some of the problems I was having before this current one showed up (which I will explain later).
As for the current problem, it is this:
Everytime I select an email "conversation" that has an attachment in the thread (conversation) I get a beach ball that takes about 15 seconds to go away. I am not able to do anything in Mail once this happens. I just have to wait for the ball to go away and for the conversation to be accessible. Just for the record, I also have "Show Related Messages" turned on as well (so that I can see my "Sent" messages in the conversation as well).
What I have done so far...
1.) Vaccumed the Envelope Index file in the Terminal with: sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Envelope\ Index vacuum;
This lead to a decrease in the size of the Index file and did make a noticable overall improvement in Mail.
2.) After that, I tried actually removing the following files from the User Library --> Mail folder: “DefaultCounts”, “Envelope Index” and “LSMMap”.
Again, this clearly lead to improvements, but I am still having the "Conversations with an attachment present" problem. The beach ball appears, and I just wait and wait and wait... Very frustrating when someone is asking for information and you are just sitting there like an idiot.
Need to get back to work here!
Anyone???

Update:
Interesting! It is not all Conversations that have attachments that are the problem, only certain ones. Can't figure out what the issue is. But the beach ball still appears and I am stuck whenever I click on those particular email Conversations.
The unique characteristic of the problematic Conversation is that it has two attachments in the Conversation: one PDF file in one email, and a .ics calendar file in another email in the Conversation.
That is all I can say...

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