Saving attachments under Mail 1.3.11 and OSX 10.3.9

Hi,
I appear to be unable to save any attchments that are sent to me in an e-mail, these can be photo's or video clips, whatever.
For example, with a photo attachment, if I open the attachment in Preview and select 'Save As' I get the warning 'Save, couldn't save document', if I click on the 'Save All' tab in the header of the e-mail itself, I get 'Error, Mail was unable to save the file blah blah'
I've gone through my Mail preferences but can't see anything obvious.
I'm sure this must be something simple that I'm missing but any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks.
Nick
466mhz G4 PowerMac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi Ernie,
OK so I'm feeling kinda dumb right now !
I've tried to use that control / click menu on a number of occasions and the 'Save Attachment' option never worked for me, I got the same error message.
However, I've also tried to use the 'Save to Downloads folder' option before and could never locate my saves, I thought that too was not working correctly but I've just tried it again as I went to write down the options in the menu as you asked and I've been able to locate two of my saves !!
I can only apologise for wasting your time - I guess I might've been having a brain / hand interface problem !!
Many thanks for taking the time to replay and putting me on the right track.
Nick

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