Mail: missing plug-in

I cannot seem to be able to view PDF files attached to emails whether at the compose stage and attaching PDFs or at the receive stage with PDF file attached to incoming email.
Quick Look works well on PDFs all the same and Save button does show the PDF(s) filename(s).
The only changes I seem to have made are:
OS X update from 10.6.6 to 10.7.7
Flash update (flash did not work in Safari)
iTunes (to 10.2.1 (1))
Of course there may have been some silly change that I made off the cuff without realising but those don't really spring to mind at all. I don't think any of those might have happened in this case.
Maybe all I need to do is to ask Preview to work with Mail?
PDF files are associated with Preview anyway.
Message was edited by: the deebs
Message was edited by: the deebs

Guys,
Have you tried this https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2454737?start=15&tstart=0

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