Snow Leopard indexing - mail and documents.

Mail index is seriously broken and document index seems to be failing.
Is there a simple way to force Snow Leopard to rebuild all indexes?

bump - can anyone help with Snow Leopard indexing problem?

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  • 3 Beep when i try to boot Snow Leopard (after memory and sad upgrade)

    Good night,
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    The DVD's too old for that Mac. If you need to install an OS on it, connect it to the Internet and start it up with the Option, Command, and R keys held down.
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    my imac osx snow leopard turns off and wont recover

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