Emails reading as gibberish

Hi.
I'm using Safari 1.3.2 on OSX 10.3.9 on my iMac.
When I view emails in .mac or in Yahoo! some of the text is gibberish.
The letters look weird. Like Greek or Chinese. But they're not intended to be.
It's not junk email either. They're emails from people I know.
These same emails look perfectly fine on my other mac whic is a laptop.
Any suggestions?

Hmm... I checked the fonts. It doesn't seem to be the problem.
The strange text isn't actually appearing as Greek. It's just gobbly-gook.
Random figures including numbers and symbols such as % and others. Weird.
Interestingly, when I tried viewing the same emails using Netscape, the text appeared normal.
Not sure, but it seems that most of the emails in question were sent from PC's.
But again, it's only happening on this one mac. Not on any others to which I have access.

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