Can't open attachments of archived e-mails

We have recently started using Mail at our design agency.
Upon completion of jobs we have backed-up, restored and archived all mail into their relevant job folders.
We have then found, when needing to go back to old e-mails, the attachments cannot be read or opened.
Can anyone please tell me how to resolve this problem?
G5   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

I don't know how .Mac's Backup works, but it seems to me that you're making some wrong assumptions here. For IMAP-type accounts, messages are stored on the server. You cannot make a backup of whatever is stored locally on your disk and expect to be able to use that as an archive of what is on the server.
For you to be able to do that in Mail 2.x, Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Keep copies of messages for offline viewing should be set to All messages and their attachments. It looks like you have it set to All messages, but omit attachments, which obviously won't work for your purposes.
If Keep copies of messages for offline viewing is set to All messages and their attachments, then Mail 2.x stores a local copy of the messages on the server using the exact same format it uses to store messages in local mailboxes, except the suffix of the mailbox folder in the filesystem is .imapmbox instead of .mbox.
You cannot import *.imapmbox mailboxes directly into Mail because when you do File > Import Mailboxes, Mail looks for *.mbox folders and ignores *.imapmbox ones, but you can easily overcome this limitation by just changing the suffix to .mbox. Note, however, that this won't work in your case either because your *.imapmbox folders don't contain full *.emlx files.
Note also that using the above procedure means relying on an implementation detail of Mail 2.x. It wouldn't work in Mail 1.x, for example, no matter what the settings.
The real issue here is that it just doesn't make sense to try to archive mailboxes that are stored on the server making backups of local data. The right way of archiving those messages would be moving them to custom "On My Mac" mailboxes in Mail.

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