Mail search not working; please help

For some reason the search function in Mail has stopped working. If I click on the Sent folder, tons of emails come up, but when I search, it always comes back blank, when they are definitely there?
Dosn't matter if I search for something I sent 10 minutes ago, yesterday or last week, nothing ever comes up. I have to list by name and look alphabetically which takes ages.
Any ideas?

Not that it's much help, Nigel, but I'm having the same problem. No matter what I search for, I get no result. I CAN find the email in Spotlight, however. Can you? If not, you can rebuild your Spotlight database, and that may fix your problem. See this article ... http://www.macobserver.com/tip/2006/07/21.1.shtml

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