Migrating G4 Xserve/w Xraid to 10.5 server

Hello:
I have a G4 Xserve and a Xserve Raid running 10.4 server. I've recently installed several MacPro WS's running 10.5 and the spotlight search no longer works. I tired various tricks with no luck and I had the user connect to a new intel Xserve running 10.5 server and spotlight worked like charm. My question is going from 10.4 to 10.5 on the Xserve G4 am I going to run into any issues with the Xserve Raid unit anything I need to look at before I do this upgrade.
Thanks,
Rick

Hi Rick
Did you search the Forum?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1813318&tstart=30
Tony

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