Spotlight working only intermittently on xserve RAID

I have an xserve RAID connected to an xserve and spotlight search works sometimes for some people and then a few minutes later it works for other people but not the ones it was working for originally.
I have tried forcing spotlight to reindex the RAID but that didn't help, users can search inside folders on the RAID but not the whole RAID itself.

This is INSANE! Apple should just take the Server Spotlight promise off their website. Is this working for anyone? Of course, I went off and told my client to upgrade to the Leopard server for exactly this service. Now we're back to using EasyFind which still finds files twice as fast as Apple's Finder Find command. BAH!
Okay - for the record:
I forced the mac to re-index Spotlight using Cocktail - and it did that (this is the internal system drive that also has share points on it).
Spotlight finds perfectly fine from the Server's Desktop.
If I sign in from a client as admin and click on "Shared" and "File Name" it will find the files - but not all of them - that match a search. (ie if I am looking for files with "07-0782" in the name and type "07-078", I get them all. If I add a "2" to the end of that, it drops a couple of the files off the list - files that clearly have "07-0782 in their name.)
Content search returns nothing - ever.
If I sign on as a regular user - I never get anything searching with "Shared" chosen in the Finder window, but if I click on the quoted folder name between "This Mac" and "Shared", it seems to do a manual (takes a minute or two depending on depth of folder) and does return results - although I swear EasyFind is faster.
I assume this might have something to do with permissions. But every folder has always had all users as part of the group with R/W permissions and "others" set to read. According to the Spotlight Server rules - anyone should be able to search if there is "read" permissions set to the share point. Anyway, I re-propagated the permissions - no help.
Phew... there's more oddness, but this is the gist of it. I did do a regular upgrade-install from a 10.4 server could this be the problem? - but erasing and re-installing doesn't seem to have helped others. Right?
-- Don

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