Mail mail and attachments

Hi, I have this issue, when I receive some email with attachments they are not displayed in mail, it's not all attachments though, some are displayed in the message body and some just work.
The only way I have found to see the attachment is to go to File and save attachments then open them from downloads.
Is there a setting in mail somewhere?
If I forward the email the attachments are not attached to the outgoing email either.

JasonBB, I'll bet that the attachments show .wmv as the formatted file. If so you'll need Flip4Mac (free) to decode them. The link is: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx
But, be careful 'cause I just recently upgraded to 10.5.7, QuickTime 7.6.2, and Sarfari 4.0.1 and something made my mail quit playing .wmv files, too. The last time this happened, the Flip4Mac folks came out with another update, I think. Anyway, their latest version is 2.2.3.7 but I've downloaded it and still can't view the .wmv files in mail.
GG

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