Mail not recognizing ZIP and PDF attachments

Since upgrading to Leopard, I have received a few emails with attachments in my work IMAP account. Some of the emails are fine (the ones with XLS and DOC attachments) and others display the attachment as a bunch of encoded text in the email (ZIP and PDF files).
Thunderbird can read all the emails just fine, so I think that the problem is that some kind of mail setting is screwed up or it is a bug in the Apple mail client.
Does anyone know why Apple mail would not recognize the data as an attachment?
Here is an example of what shows up in my email:
--Apple-Mail-17-830733730
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary=Apple-Mail-18-830733730
--Apple-Mail-18-830733730
Content-Type: text/html;
charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Attached is the latest QuickRef in booklet form, ready to print.
</body></html>
--Apple-Mail-18-830733730
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=svquickrefv3.5-booklet.zip
Content-Type: application/zip;
x-unix-mode=0755;
x-mac-type=5A495020;
name="svquickrefv3.5-booklet.zip"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
UEsDBBQAAAAIAFieXzct4eWqZKoOABN9DwAcAAAAc3ZfcXVpY2tyZWZfdjMuNS1ib29rbGV0LnBk
ZrybdzyVbeD/FSJlHTPztrI5e0SySdl7b1nZJAopSSSjjFBEZZeZmS2h7BnKLKOMbKrvqR7P7/s8
------------ bunch of encoded text deleted ----------------

We are having a problem were Preview cannot display the text of an attached PDF in an email. Really strange. Shows the formatting of lines and grids graphics etc. But the text is blank.
Acrobat can open and show the file, the text is there.

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