Want to disable Mail.app attaching folders with double click

I recently upgraded to Leopard from Tiger and one of the really annoying things I contend with on an almost daily basis is the new (4.3) Mail.app's behavior regarding double clicking of folders.
Basically when I am trying to navigate to add an attachment, I often accidentally double click folders as I am trying to make my way through them. In 99% of programs this is not an issue, but in Mail, the program will decide that what I want to do is attach the folder. Often this happens with giant, top-level folders, and so I am treated to a 10-20 second or so wait while it locates all 20GB of files in the folder and tries to add them to an e-mail. Then I have to delete that attachment and start over again.
Is there any way to simply disable this behavior? I don't think I've had to attach a folder in a mail message in my life, yet I run into this problem almost every time I try to attach files.
I don't consider monkeying with my double-click speed to be much of a solution. This is really just an issue with this one application.
Message was edited by: Fastfission

It took me a while to figure out what it was you were seeing.
That happens in Column view because that is what column view does. You only need to click once on a folder to open it in column view. So, if you double-click, it thinks you want to use that folder. Attaching a folder to an email is a somewhat expected behavior, so that is how Mail responds. Other apps aren't expecting to get a folder, so it just happily ignores your double-click and waits until you provide a file to open.
If you are in the habit of double-clicking to open all folders, then switch the layout to list view or icon view in the attach file dialog. Or, stop double-clicking folders in column view.

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> Mac-mydotmacusername1
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