Getting MIME attachments in emails

I have an iMac and am having a problem with the Mail program. Any message I get from any ebay member comes as a MIME attachment instead of the text being in the body of the email. This includes replies from ebay support. I can view the emails thru ebay's "my messages" fine but the same messages are MIME attachments in the Mail program. Any other emails from non-ebay users I get are fine. This has only started happening in the last few weeks or so.
I don't see anything in the Mail preferences having to do with MIME.
Any help would be appreciated.
Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Ernie,
Just to clarify (hopefully), the emails that I am receiving with MIME attachments were not originally sent with an attachment. I have questioned those who have sent the emails and they verified that they did NOT attach any documents to the email only typed the message in the email itself. However when receiving the email in the Apple Mail program the text is now in a mime attachment not in the body of the email. Somewhere along the way, the email is getting an attachment. It has NOT always been that way so I am not sure what happened to cause this. I may try and use another mail program instead (although I do like apple's mail program) and see if there is a difference.
I can check with my ISP (RCN) and see if they added any SPAM screening although it seems strange it would only be on a emails coming from one place (ebay).
Thanks for your response.
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