Mail freezes if a message has an attachment: help!!

I just upgraded my G4 imac to an intel imac last week. So far so good, until yesterday, when Mail started acting up. It is to the point that I have to use the webmail version.
When I launch the program, and have new messages, I click on them. But if the message has an attachment (which my spam messages often do), when I click them (even single click- just to select them so I can delete them)- Mail totally freezes and I have to quit the app. And the hard drive makes a lot of scary loud noise. I have never experienced anything like this before, and am not sure what to make of it. If the message does not have an attachment, it seems to work just fine. But so as it is, I just can't select the messages with attachments. B/c as soon as I do, the app is useless and frozen and I have to quit, sometimes even force-quit.
Help!!
Thanks.

You’re welcome.
You really should either erase the disk and restore from a backup or repair it with a disk utility. If you keep using the computer under those conditions, things can only get worse and you may soon start experiencing frequent crashes or even data loss...
I don’t know much about third-party disk repair utilities because I’ve never used anything other than Disk Utility myself. The best disk repair utility is a good backup, which everybody should have anyway. If I ever encounter a problem that Disk Utility cannot fix, I just erase the disk and restore from a backup.
Assuming the version of Disk Warrior you have supports Mac OS X 10.4 (which I don’t really know) and the problem is just that you cannot use it to boot an Intel-based Mac, if you have access to a PowerPC-based Mac with Mac OS X 10.4 installed, I believe you should be able to repair the disk by connecting the Intel-based Mac in Target Disk Mode to the PowerPC-based Mac.

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