Can't add any folder to the Spotlight Privacy tab

I cannot drag any folder to the spotlight privacy tab or use "+" to add a folder to the privacy tab. Is there any option I could have inadvertently set to have done this? I have tried this on another account on my powerbook and I get the same result.
Thanks

That is generally a problem if you have ever used any of the Terminal commands of mdutil to change something having to do with Spotlight. You could take a look at this article:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/stopspotlightindex.html
You could try using the Terminal to re-index drive and see if the Privacy function recovers, or try deleting the preferences for Spotlight if you had not done any Terminal commands before. The preference is here:
"/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist"
Remove it and log out and back in or restart and see if the Privacy function starts working again.
Francine
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