Spotlight issues again - only on a larger scale.

Hi there
A couple of weeks back I reported issues with spotlight. It had stopped finding anything beyond mid April. It couldfind anything before the date but nothing added to the machine after.
I submitted a question got it answered and everything was fine.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21828060?ac_cid=op123456#21828060
Went to do a search today and nothing. No apps no gifs no jpgs no html docs and nothing at all with "a" or "." in the file name. Nothing, nada, zilch, no matter what option I entered as a search as far as spotlight is concerned I have nothing on the machine not even an operating system. It cant find anything on the external drives either.
Can anyone suggest a reason for this problem, I don't want to re index my hard drive and 3 external drives everytime I want to look for something.
Thanks in advance.
Edit - Added twist if I use spotlight in the menu bar if finds nothing then it says its indexing the imac then it shows some results and tells me its indexing again but the minute I click on "open results in finder" all the results disappear and finder shows 0 results and spotlight stops indexing.
The search option in the finder wont find anything. I have to go back to the main menu bar and type my search in there but that just starts the whole cycle over again, not results then it says its indexing then when I try to open the results in finder everything vanishes again.
HELP!

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Cheers,
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