.zip extensions added to email attachments

I work ay Sun Microsystems and use Neo Office as a Mac compatible office suite to Sun's Star Office. Since upgrading to Tiger, when people send me an email with a Star Office document attached (.sxi, .sxc, .sxw etc) Mail adds a .zip extension to the file. The docs still open in Neo Office, or Open Office, but I would like to stop Mail from adding the .zip extension to the file name. Any ideas?

Roadcaptain
Welcome to discussions. The following is taken from Sun's site:
The StarOffice file format is a native XML format without any binary data. Sub-elements, such as pictures, are placed in their original file format within the XML file. The XML format specification is located at http://xml.openoffice.org. StarOffice documents are saved as archive files (ZIP format), to more easily store sub-elements such as pictures, macros and styles. To explore the XML content of a StarOffice document, first unzip the document file (e.g. ending with .sxw) and then examine the XML content in a file named content.xml.
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