MaxField Rankings for Product Search

I'm currently tweaking our default search relranking for my company. I'm fairly happy with the modules in place right now, but there are some issues I'm having trouble with. Here is the RelRank strategy I'm working with:
Static (Stock Status)
NTerms
MaxField
Glom
Exact
While overall this is working well, there are odd searches that seem to throw it off. A search for "Graphics Card" for instance, I'm getting results from Desktops and other categories due to "Graphics Card" being present in the Product Name, which is our highest ranked field for MaxField. So my real question is this, should Product Name always be the highest ranked field in MaxField? Or is there an argument to make it something like category name to assist searches like this one? I have a feeling this may be an area where changing the MaxField rankings will throw off our search in unforeseen ways.
For those out there running a product based search, what are your thoughts?

I found a part of the solution so I share it to save you some time:
We have made following steps
1/ delete indexes on TREX server with
XC1\i$\usr\sap\XC1\TRX18
\Trexadmin.bat
2/ Stop TREX
3/ Modify file
XC1\i$\usr\sap\XC1\TRX18\<server>\topology.ini
Replace this two lines:
token_separator=\/;,.:-_()[]<>!?*@+{}=
number_separator=\/;:-_()[]<>!?*#$&@+{}=
by
token_separator=*
number_separator=*
4/ Restart Trex
5/ Create new indexes
It's now working as expected. But the space is still seen as a word separator (even if there is no space behind the * in the line token_separator=*)
Any idea for this part ?
Regards

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SCOTT@orcl_11gR2> Create Table Tbl_Product_Lookup
2    (
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4       Product_Description Varchar2(200),
5       Product_Start_Date   Date,
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7       Product_Price          Number(12,4)
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2 into tbl_product_lookup (product_description) values ('test product')
3 into tbl_product_lookup (product_description) values ('test product and more')
4 into tbl_product_lookup (product_description) values ('another test product and more')
5 into tbl_product_lookup (product_description) values ('another test product')
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7 into tbl_product_lookup (product_description) values ('selftest product')
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2 /
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2 from   (select /*+ FIRST_ROWS(100) */ distinct
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5               when product_description like '% ' || :productdescription || ' %' then 3
6               when product_description like '% ' || :productdescription       then 4
7               when product_description like :productdescription || '%'       then 5
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10              product_description
11           from   tbl_product_lookup
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15 /
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         3 another test product and more
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         5 test products
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6 rows selected.
Elapsed: 00:00:00.10
Execution Plan
Plan hash value: 459057338
| Id | Operation                      | Name               | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT               |                    |    38 | 3990 |    13 (16)| 00:00:01 |
|* 1 | COUNT STOPKEY                 |                    |       |       |            |          |
|   2 |   VIEW                         |                    |    38 | 3990 |    13 (16)| 00:00:01 |
|* 3 |    SORT UNIQUE STOPKEY         |                    |    38 |   988 |    12   (9)| 00:00:01 |
|   4 |     TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| TBL_PRODUCT_LOOKUP |    38 |   988 |    11   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 5 |      DOMAIN INDEX              | PROD_DESC_TEXT_IDX |       |       |     4   (0)| 00:00:01 |
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OR
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