No results when searching mail (and Help suggestions not working)

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Text searches of Address Book and Finder and iCa all work normally, but all text string searches for in Mail return "0 Results" no matter which Mail folder I use or what string I try to search for.

I'm running Tiger (all updates) and have tried:

1) Checking Spotlight preferences--- Mail shows up with the other searchable Apps, *not* on the Privacy tab.

2) Only one of my Accounts is IMAP, and it is set for keep copies for offline viewing.

Anything else I should try!??

TIA,

D.
 
I had installed a version of <http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Mail_Scripts.html> a while back. Though I don't know if this is correct, I downloaded a new version of those scripts and my problem is solved.
 
I emailed Andreas Amman, author of Mail Scripts, and he sent me back very informative comments about my problem. Salient points:

1) his scripts wouldn't interfere with Mail or Spotlight, and there's nothing different in the new version I downloaded... so he's confident his scripts didn't cause the problem.

2) his guess is that my LaunchServices database became corrupted (cause of my problem) and that installing his scripts somehow triggered the system to do a complete rebuild of that database and that that was what fixed the problem. He also pointed me toward this article on how to manually rebuild the Launchservices database:
<http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031215144430486&query=launchservices>

Thanks Andreas!
 
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