Mdutil not manipulating metadata index settings as it should?

I seem to be having a perplexing issue with spotlight and finder searching. On a 10.5.6 Server system, mdutil behaves as follows:
sudo mdutil -s /
Indexing and searching disabled.
sudo mdutil -i on /
Indexing and searching disabled.
sudo mdutil -E /
Indexing and searching disabled.
+# as this problem really pertains to an afp share, i tried using the path to that folder as well:+
sudo mdutil -s /Volumes/System/Shared\ Items/
/Shared Items:
No index.
sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/System/Shared\ Items/
/Shared Items:
Error: invalid operation.
No index.
sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/System/Shared\ Items/
/Shared Items:
No index.
i actually have this happening on more than one server as well. i have tried deleting the .Spotlight folders in addition to the steps above. I also have tried using the privacy pane in system preferences. No luck and unhappy users. : (. Can anyone share info with me that might lead me down the right path?

I am having a similar issue with non-server OS X 10.5.6: nothing on my startup drive is spotlighted, so even mail "search entire message" does not work (most inconvenient). Tried all the usual move the startup drive in and out of spotlight privacy, but no joy: indexing didn't occur.
So I did the sudo mdutil commands you suggested and got the same results. Then for grins, I did a "man mdutil" to keep the doc on screen, and then opened an new terminal window.
This time sudo mdutil -i on / WORKED!
then a sudo mdtutil -E / started up a long (says two hours to go in SPOTLIGHT) indexed process.
I'm not sure if the gods were with me or opening a second window had any thing at all to do with it (can't imagine how!), but it's doing something it didn't do before.
This all started after an upgrade from 10.4.11 to 10.5.6 (upgrade, not a clean install then reinstall everything). The big change I made form 10.4 to 10.5 is now I use Time Machine instead of SuperDuper! to back up my files; I used "spotless" with SuperDuper due to some old issues. Maybe that caused a problem.
I'll report back when the index is complete.
Eddie O

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| 1 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | PART_AWARD_PAYOUT_SCHEDULE | 1 | 89 | 2 |
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|* 4 | FILTER | | | | |
|* 5 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | PART_AWARD_PAYOUT_SCHEDULE_PK1 | 1 | 67 | 2 |
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|* 12 | HASH JOIN OUTER | | 26 | 11596 | 91 |
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|* 18 | HASH JOIN OUTER | | 26 | 8086 | 82 |
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| 21 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 115 | 65 |
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| 32 | SORT GROUP BY | | 1 | 198 | 10 |
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| 35 | NESTED LOOPS | | 2 | 312 | 4 |
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1
2     -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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