Mail attachments not showing as icons but as blue square with ? in

This is probably going to sound very odd but recently all attachments that I send or forward come up with the attachment showing as a blue block with question marks on the site - something like a piece of lego.
Anyone got any ideas what the problem is and how to resolve it?
Thanks
Mail version 2.1.2 (753)
OS 10.4.11

As a follow-up, Apple did help.
Called Tech Support and spoke at length with Mujahid. He went through the system carefully and confirmed (by creating another 'user account') that the problem was 'system wide'. He then requested that I trash the current Mail application and re-install Mail from the disks that were provided with the iMac. I then restarted the iMac, opened Mail (now v2.1.1), created a test email and attached a jpeg...............
Eureka! Problem solved. No more blue lego cubes with question marks.
It doesn't explain how the problem arose in the first place and I don't know if it will recur if I upgrade to Mail v2.1.2 I did use the 'migration assistant' when moving files over from the old laptop with 10.3.9 and it may have been that something nasty crossed over. Anyway, its fixed now.
All hail Mujahid.

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