I cannot search messages in Mail... why??

My Mail downloads from my Gmail account. If I search in Mail with the To, From or Subject tabs checked, it's fine. But if I try to search the Entire Message, it never finds a thing - I don't think it even tries!
The messages are all on my HDD and I've had a good look through the Mail Preferences, but cannot work it out. I can, however, search the entire message via Spotlight - but I want my computer to work properly!
Any help? Thanks.

joefinan, I did a test just to see what happens on mine. It might be different since I don't use Gmail. I have a Saved folder and when I did a Search in the Mail window for the word "July" (without quotes), it only came up with one email with the word "July" even though I knew there were two emails that contained the word. However, after a few minutes I tried again and the two emails came up so I'm wondering if it is indexing the emails as it searches so it won't find something that hasn't been indexed yet. Just my observation.

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