Upgraded to 10.6.8 now Mail won't search

The top right search box in Mail does not seem to work after the latest upgrade to 10.6.8. It seems to work sometimes but I can't figure out why sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. For instance, I can search for "Bob" in my Inbox folder and it will pull up all messages from Bob. But if I search for "Bob" in my Sent folder it shows 0 found even though there are hundreds of messages there. It is not folder specific though. I can search for a subject or sender name (which I know is there) in my Inbox folder or All Mailboxes and also provides 0 results. Although, to thorougly confuse me some searches do produce results. Could there be some threshold of results that prevents some search results from displaying? Can't imagine that's it as some searches will return over 500 results and the ones that don't show would not have that many returns.
I believe this is a bug that was introduced in my last OS upgrade. Any ideas?

Ernie, thank you very much. I followed the reindexing and that may have helped, however I believe I found the problem and it was a PEBKAC issue. Total brain fade on my part.
When I was performing a search I did not have "Entire Message" selected for the results. I had the "From" selected. I don't typicaly click off of the entire message option, and since I don't typically use that feature didn't even think to look at the most obvious, right in front of me option. Feeling super intelligent.
I appreciate your help.

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