Spotlight will not fully index PowerBook used in target disk mode

I connected my PowerBook in target disk mode to my desktop to transfer files. Quickly added the PowerBook drive to the desktop's privacy list. After restarting the PowerBook, it started indexing, but said it was finished in less than 5 minutes (about 50 GB on drive). Spotlight will get a few hits, but misses many that I know are there for key words that are in both file names and contents.
I've tried erasing the index, I've tried using Spotless, I've tried running mdimport on the whole drive (it began using too much memory and bogged down). Nothing I can think of will get the drive to index properly. Any ideas?

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Yes, use Easyfind. Easy find doesn't have all those limitations that Spotlight has.

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