all the other options work fine. However, for searching emails, those selections are rarely what I need.
I ended up disabling Spotlight, and then with the free EasyFind.app I just point it at the directory where my email is stored and it accomplishes the search licketedly split. Much better...
Anyone have any idea how to replace Spotlight as the search tool for Mail.app? I can't get "entire message" search to ever undim so I can select it, and following the guidelines to get Spotlight to reindex and operate correctly creates a 30 gig search index on a 130 gig hard drive (MacBook Pro...