Mozilla thunderbird crashes when opening attachments

[Mal Beaton <mal@mbeaton.id.au>]

	apt-cache show mozilla-thunderbird
Package: mozilla-thunderbird
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 31944
Maintainer: Alexander Sack <asac@jwsdot.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.6-2


When trying to open attachments mozilla-thunderbird closes. The
attachements do not open

In Tools > Options > Attachments
the area
File Types
Automatically perform the associated action with each of the following
file types

is empty and there is no way to add an action

in mozilla-firefox it defaults to the kde file open dialog

I am using debian unstable + kde 3.2.2

can anyone point me in the right direction