Can't click view MMS. Received fine and preview works - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

I have a stock AT&T S4 (rooted with some built in apps removed) and I am having trouble opening images attached to MMS messages. They show fine in the messaging app as a preview and I can long click to choose "view slideshow" but when I single tap on the image to open it full screen the image can't be loaded.
I cleared my app defaults so that when the image was clicked it would ask which viewer to use. I tried QuickPic and it just flashes and goes back to the messaging app. I tried ES explorer's built in image viewer and it goes to a blank screen with the error "could not load image"
It doesn't matter if I click a received message or if i click one of my previous sent messages.
Any ideas?

It seems that messaging depends on gallery (to view mms full screen), and gallery may depend on google+ so unless you replace you your messaging app do not remove gallery or Google+
Luckily I had a nandroid backup of the system without changes. I restored it and tried removing the gallery application and my MMS viewing broke again. It sucks that I can't use Quickpic to view the pictures.

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I have not downloaded any SMS/MMS appz from the marketplace, so using stock/default appz.
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