Spotlight is gray instead of blue and won't return proper results

Hello,
I have been having difficulty with Spotlight for 2 months now. One day, it just stopped returning any results. So I reindexed the entire hard drive, checked via Terminal to make sure indexing was on and followed a bevy of other tricks found in discussions. None of them has worked. At the moment, Spotlight will return some results such as applications, but skips most of the documents that should turn up easily.
Also affected is the search in the Mail application. It will return proper results if I search via the FROM or TO or SUBJECT fields, but it will not return ANY results if I choose the ENTIRE MESSAGE search choice. Subsequently, mail messages do not appear in the Spotlight search either (even though it is checked in the Preferences.
Also, I know that the spotlight menu will be colored blue when the drive is indexed properly. Mine is gray, even though it took it's 2 hours to index and said it successfully completed.
I've yet to find a solution that works and am looking for any advice, tips, or solution trials.
Thanks,
jc

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