Strange Mail add/save attachments dialog

Folks,
Recently, when I go to add or save an attachment to a message, the (full) dialog box shows multiple copies of the Name and Modified columns. Not sure how this happened (corruption?), but it is extremely annoying. Clicking/right clicking in an open column doesn't seem to allow me to add/drop columns in this dialog to reconfigure it.
Anyone experience this? Is there a way to reconfigure this dialog box?
-geoff

Has anyone found a solution to this problem? It is happening to me on my work computer running 10.5. One minute it was fine the next minute it had added an extra date modified column. Very frustrating. I am beginning to think 10.5 if very unstable. We are having several problems with it at work. I refuse to update my two computers at home running 10.4.11. That's as far as I'm going until Apple gets things straightened out.
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