Spotlight not working - or are we missing something.

We have a 10.5.8 X serve running both SMB and AFP. This is running in a mixed environment ( windows XP, OSX 10.5 and 10.6 )
We've run into a problem when using spotlight to search on the server on a mounted volume. Searches return no results.
The odd part about this is it is not all the clients. Some of the clients return results without issue, others do not.
Spotlight on the actual server works properly and returns valid results.
Spotlight on the clients, when searching locally, returns valid results.
Some of the clients can search with out issue.
Others cannot.
It seems that there is a setting or option that needs to be adjusted, and we cannot fathom which one.

Just realized that I had the backup and restore window open when I wrote the above post and when I closed that the window for the Desktop Manager did allow me to access the toolbar at the top but the Desktop Manager is still disabled.

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