Email attachments corrupted in Apple Mail

Hi, I just had to clean-install OS X Lion (10.7.3), I synched my e-mail accounts (Gmail apps account) with Apple Mail (5.3) and some attachments (mainly PDFs and DOCs) are now corrupted when trying to open up in Apple Mail. In the Google Mail web access the corrupted attachments can be opened perfectly. Has anybody experienced this issue?

Mark, I don't know if you're still following this thread, but I've solved my problem.
The issue is bizarrre but seems to be connected with slow connections (I saw this mentioned elsewhere but had discounted it as rubbish!). It seems the reason the pdf's will not display is that they are getting truncated by Mail.
What I did was to wait until I was connected to a fast internet connection and then rebuilt my mail box (under Mail | Mailbox | Rebuild). I tried rebuilding the mailbox before but I was still connected with my phone and the problem persisted.
It seems to have fixed the issue for me. Hope it may help you.
Andy

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