Why are my search results for mail incomplete?

Why is it that when I search for emails that I KNOW are in my inbox I cannot find them? This never used to be a problem until I upgraded to Lion. My inbox has close to 7000 emails so it is not practical to manually search through it for an email that is several months old. Why are the search results incomplete? I find this extremely frustrating.

Had the same problem- called applecare, a mail supervisor walked me through the easy fix-
(I am no tech so this is in simple terms)
(Assuming you just upgraded to lion) - the "library" was not "properly rebuilt" - the emails are there but are not fully queriable which is why the "recent" or "post upgrade" emails search properly while the "older" or "pre upgrade" ones don't- the library index needs to be rebuilt (which is much easier than it sounds)
Steps
1- Quit Email (fully)
2- open finder, open "Go"
    Hold the "Option" key on your keyboard - this will expand the menu to show the "Library"
3- Select the "Library" option, (you can now release the "Option" key).
4- Open the following folders (Mail,   V2   , Maildata)
5- Within the Maildata folder there are (3) files which need to be deleted (Trashcan them)
     (envelopeindex, envelopeindex-shm,  envelopeindex-wal)
6- Reopen Mail / (This will automatically reimport these files,  takes some time depending on how many emails)
7- Quit mail and Reopen (has to reload for some reason)
8- The mail program will do some automatic sycronizing  (You will see some the files "Reappear / fill in" while Syncronizing
9- about 100 (blank or garage or remant emails) loaded to the top of my inbox during this process but everything else was normal-
Everything now works great 

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