Slow Searching on Multiple PDFs

I am using Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional on a Windows XP PC which is on a Novell network.
I have a directory on a network drive that a dozen people need to have access to for the purpose of doing searches across all of the PDFs in the directory. We have 352 PDF documents split into 27 subdirectories. When I search the entire directory, the response is very slow. I used the catalog feature and built an index. Doing a search on the index is somewhat better, but still slow to response.
When I copy the entire directory to my local drive and do a search (whether with the index or based on the directory), it is MUCH faster.
Any ideas what could be hampering the performance of the search on a network drive? I can successfully search other full directories on network drives.
Thank you.

One more thought.... I just recently installed a 2nd
hard drive in my powermac and moved my itunes tracks
to the new drive. The only drawback is when my 2nd
hard drive goes to sleep and I haven't played
anything in iTunes for a while; there is a 4 or 5
second lag when I play the first track until the 2nd
drive kicks in. So I know having them on an
alternate drive can impact performance in iTunes.
Yes, I notice this lag too but that isn't too much of a problem because after it spins up, everything is up to speed except of course the searching. One would imagine that having a FireWire connection would be fast enough though.
One thing I may do when I get the chance is to rebuild the iTunes library. I can throw away the .xml file. Start up iTunes and then simply drag my music folders to the iTunes window and have it re/build the .xml file. That could work.
Thanks!

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