Mail -- some attachments not showing up

I am again having a problem with Mail (Version 5.1 1251/1251.1) on Lion (10.7.2) where attachments won't show up even though they're clearly there.  Today it is happening when I received a Keynote file.  The message size shows up as 5.7 MB and the body contains one sentence and a signature.  I know that there is a document attached, but can find no way to get to it.  (Command-Y doesn't work).
Most attachments do come through, but this seems to be happening to me about once a week.  Any suggestions on how to always get attachments?  Thanks.

I have this happen all the time; it seems to be a known bug with Mail, and Apple doesn't seem interested in fixing it. Every week or so Mail will stop showing attachments. If I quit Mail and restart it, then it shows them and everything's fine. It's extremely annoying.

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