Mail search can't find things

I've got a really nasty problem with searches in the Mail program in OS X Lion.
It used to be that I could search any term or string and the program would quickly find what I was looking for.  I may have needed to click on the buttons to indicate whether the term should be in the subject, entire message, etc.
With the new version of Mail, the program seldom finds anything.  The search refinement buttons usually aren't there anymore, and they only come up as I type and the program guesses where to look.  However, most of the time they don't come up at all, and the search function finds nothing, even though I know the term is in my mail.
There seem to be no settings for dealing with this problem in Mail, and this is really going to make my life miserable, since I have to search many times daily.
Does anyone know a way to fix this?
Jamie

My take is that Mail now only searches on subject lines and From addresses, as indicated by the popup selections upon entering some search text. This would be a terrible retraction of capability for a putatively more advanced system. For all the twitterific garbage, to lose this would be cataclysmic.

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