Searching Leopard Mail content with Spotlight BROKEN

I've read plenty of problems with this but I've not discovered any solutions. I desperately need to get my search content of mail back online as this has been a very important tool for me. I have thousands of emails that I access regularly using this feature, and at one time I thought that haaving them backed up was my main concern. I never imagined that this VITAL tool would break after installing Leopard, which is wonderful and which I love very much. Has anyone heard of a quick fix yet for this problem? I need this fixed today, ... thank you for any help.
David

My solutions thus far to bypass my broken Spotlight issue has been to copy my old Sent Mail folders which were not being recognized by spotlight (and which were several gigs in size) into a special mail folder at my main hard drive level. Then I told Spotlight preferences to ignore the folder. Then I un-excluded it from the Spotlight list (something I had done before inside the Library to no avail). And, wa-la, the email content in those folders was being searched. It is not the best situation, as I would like to use the Spotlight function INSIDE mail. But for now, it helps me get by. Don't know if that helps anyone ...
I do notice my Mail Spotlight is paying attention to all new mail since upgrading to Leopard. It's the old mail that is being ignored, sadly.

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