Desktop clutter: How to stop opened attachments from saving on desktop?

Hi,
Every time I open (not save) an attachment, a copy of it is automatically saved on my desktop. My desktop continually gets cluttered. I've searched on my computer but can't find where I'd go to change the default settings so this will stop happening.
Thanks for any help!
IBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Are you referring to attachments in email, or
attachments as part of web
pages (such as download are sometimes erroneously
referred) or in what
application are you interested in controlling this
action?
The Finder preferences generally do not blanket
control these kinds of
actions; so if you are using an email application or
a browser with email
handling capabilities, these usually have a set of
preferences you can
control and choose what it does with files downloaded
or attachments.
Some attachments can be set to open in another
window. In some
applications, you could assign a folder once and have
things go into it.
What applications are you using that generate these
attachment files?
Thanks. I am referring to email attachments. I always use Mozilla Firefox to open up email attachments. In Firefox Preferences under the download tab you can choose either "Ask me where to save every file" or "Save all files to this folder." I've set it to "Ask me where to save every file" of course yet this is still saving to my desktop. Further, I don't even want to save the files, the files always save to my desktop when I just try to open, not even save, an attachment.
Thanks for your help.
IBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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