Spotlight Issues

Hey I am having an issue with spotlight on a network at home before i tiger I use to be able to explore network drives using spotlight. The network drive is on another computer in the office which use to work fine before upgrading to Leopard. Main Question*+ When I open up one of the external drives attached to another co-workers computer from my computer and use the search function it says "searching "This Mac"". And nothing ever opens

I have a similar, but slightly more annoying issue.
Every once in a while (seemingly at random), Spotlight decides that all my drives need to be indexed again (not just when I restart). I have an internal 250GB, an external Firewire 250GB, an external USB 250GB and a 500GB USB that is used for my Time Machine.
Anyway, about two or three minutes into Spotlight indexing these drives, I get a Kernel Panic and have to restart. To prevent this, as soon as Spotlight starts indexing I have to quickly throw all drives into the Privacy area to stop them from being indexed, and then release them one by one back to Spotlight to be indexed. This takes really long and is very annoying.
One other, possibly related issue, is that Spotlight doesn't work under Time Machine. Whenever I use Time Machine, no matter what I put in the search window, it returns no results.
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks,
Paul C.
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