Poor Text Wrapping in Apple's Mail Application

I sometimes received email that's formatted poorly. This is in the Apple Mail Application. Maybe the first line is a full line of text, the second line is one word, and this alternates ad nauseum. Is there any way to get email that displays poorly to display in a more readable manner?
Some people on other threads have suggested that in Mail, I could go to View-->Message-->Plain Text Alternative, but the Plain Text Alternative is always greyed out for me, so even if it works for some people, the greyed out option dictates I can't use that option.
Thanks in advance!!!
Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.3)

In my experience, that has been an issue with how a sender is formatting their mail. Often teh formatting was unintentional; the sender tried chaning something else and managed to hit so mail format option by mistake. If that is the case, teh sender probably doesn't know anything is wrong and that will make it harder for you to help them fix it.

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