PowerPoint Attachments in Mail do not Open

I have a new Intel Dual Core iMac. I receive a lot of attachments in mail, all of which I have no problems opening except for one: PowerPoint. When I click on a PowerPoint attachment, Mail tells me that it doesn't know which application should open it. When I drag the attachment from Mail to the PowerPoint 2004 icon on the dock, it opens just fine. I do not have this problem on my PowerBook. The get info on the PowerPoint attachment does indicate that PowerPoint 2004 is the default app.
Any Ideas?
15 Aluminum PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

The only thing that I could think of would be to change the open with to something else. Then change it back and set to open all as default. I had this happen before and that fixed it for me.
"D"

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