Smart mailbox stopped working

Smart Mailboxes no longer catching incoming mails that fit the criteria. (the ones that should have been caught/tagged are in the INBOX, but not showing up in the virtual smartmail boxes.
And now also, no previously 'caught' emails show up at all if I don't check the 'include sent messages' box, even though what appears are the 'received' emails, not sent ones, which I don't want to include in the smartbox anyway. It's really screwed up.
Steps already taken:
I repaired disk permissions.
I forced (spotlight) reindexing of my user library folder.
I deleted and rebuilt/renamed the smart mailboxes.
These did not help or fix the problem. I can't find anything about this particular problem in the postings.
What else should I do since something in mail and smartmail feature have gone awry? (something corrupted?)
imac g5 2/20 & B/W G3 (upgraded cpu)   Mac OS X (10.4.2)  

What was the origin of your Mail folder, and
mailboxes -- were they converted from Panther, or
earlier?
I didn't have any smart boxes before (in Panther) and I had to recreate all my mailboxes in Tiger because my older G3 is not firewire-target-compatible.
So, all new when I started them in 10.4.0 -- did one system update to 10.4.2 -- and I've created most, if not all but one of those mailboxes & smart mailboxes under 10.4.2
Also, I ran disk repair since posting this initial message and there were no problems reported which needed to be repaired.
Does this help/make a big difference?
Thanks!
ProSo
P.s. Have you had any problems upgrading to 10.4.5? I've read so much about problems/instability, etc. I usually wait several levels before I upgrade and this has proved wise in the past.
imac g5 2/20 & B/W G3 (upgraded cpu)   Mac OS X (10.4.2)  

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