Spotlight Client Searching on OS X 10.5.1 Server

This is my first post after lurking and using the excellent advice that I have found in these discussions.
I though I'd share a fix I found for Spotlight Server.
I have a OS X 10.5.1 server with one internal drive shared and three firewire drives shared. I went through all of the other forums and applied the various fixes, mdutil, cocktail, etc and got all of my shared drives indexed. Fantastic!!
I got all of my OS X 10.5.1 client computers setup with Directory Utility and they were able to search on the external Firewire volumes but not on the internal volume.
After tearing my hair out for 3 days and our business limping along on with limited search capabilities I came across a post that fixed everything:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6090236&#6090236
Removing the space from the server's internal drive name solved all of my problems!
so before it read something like "Server HD" and now "ServerHD".
If anyone is interested or having similar problems just let me know and I'd be happy to explain what I did to get my server up and running with spotlight functionality for all network clients.

Anyone knows anything at all about this? I have tried everything I could think of - without any success at all.
Every 12 minutes it crashes for about 10 to 15 seconds. Everything freezes and the little spiral goes on and on... The message on Crash Reporter is always the same:
Process: nmblookup [258]
Path: /usr/bin/nmblookup
Identifier: nmblookup
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: PPC (Native)
Parent Process: Finder [138]
Date/Time: 2008-01-03 11:14:12.504 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.1 (9B18)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000a, 0x000000000008aa8c
Crashed Thread: 0
Error Formulating Crash Report:
Called memoryAtAddress: 0x89c00, which is in an unmappable portion of [0x0 -> 0xffffffffffffffff] in PID# 258.
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