Downloading attachements with Apple Mail

For some reason after upgrading all our computers to Tiger and swiching to Intel based machines, downloading attachments in mail has become hit or miss.
What happens is the attachment starts to download, gets to about 256k and stops. Mail will then throw up an error asking to re-entering a username and password. When I do this it just ask to do it again and again. I think the server is rejecting it because the server still thinks your logged in(?)
The best way i've found to get it to work is to stop the download before Mail gives the error and then "get mail" again. The second time usually works bit not always. I often have to quit Mail and wait for about ten minutes before launching it and trying again.
Anyone have any ideas??
Thanks!
Message was edited by: Bryantay

There are several 3rd-party applications that provide this functionality - google os x mail merge.
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