Mail Corrupting Attachments

Hi everyone,
I have been attempting to email .pdf attachments to my work email address (an Imac running Panther) however, when I check my attachments at work they are corrupted. This also occurs if I encase the .pdf in a StuffIt document (the .sitx document posts an error on opening). Would anyone know the cause of this. Is it the Imac or the G5 Tower?

Yes, a number of times. I had a bit of trouble from the word go when setting up the Mac, mainly me. I have made it a bit of a habit to run the disk utility after I update or install software, and everything seems to be going fine except for the things I've mentioned. I noticed you're running the updated system (4.6), I'm a bit scare to download it and update in case I get problems as per some other people on the forum particularly Intel based machines? Have you had problems with 4.6?

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