Getting Spotlight to look inside Word files

Hi,
I'm trying to get Spotlight to search the contents of Word files on one of my machines running Tiger (10.4.11). It works fine on one machine (fresh install of Tiger), but the one I want it to work on doesn't return any Word files on the same search. I've looked in system.log for error messages, but don't see any.
How do I get Spotlight to search inside Word files on a machine running Tiger that was upgraded from Panther to Tiger?
Also, is there any way to customize Spotlight to tell it to search just Word files in a given directory tree?
Thanks for any tips or ideas!
Ed

Hi BDAqua,
I looked into my problem more closely, comparing a typical search for a string that's only inside a specific Word file on two different G4s, both running the same version of Tiger and Spotlight. One machine was fine, returning the one and only file that had the string in the contents of the Word file. The same search on the problem machine returned other files in the search results, but not the one expected.
Turning to the issue of permissions, I note for others who may read this, that a full, clean install of Tiger on a new disc will, by default, result in each $USER belonging to a group with the name $USER. Whereas an upgrade install of Tiger on a machine that, prior to the upgrade, was running either Jaguar or Panther, will result in each $USER belonging to a group called "staff". This was the default setup on earlier versions of Darwin that has since changed under Tiger.
I changed the group from $USER to staff for my test Word file on both machines. No changes. Spotlight doesn't seem to mind, as I expected, the change of group from $USER to staff.
Then, based on your comment about Spotless, I downloaded and installed Spotless. Again no change. BUT, I started thinking about the indexing of files that Spotlight relies upon.
I then ran across Main Menu which allowed me to force a re-indexing of Spotlight. That did it! My test search then worked fine on the problem machine.
Thanks again for your help and getting me to think thru the problem.
Ed

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