Thanks Ron,

I have been reluctant to do the search rebuild because it will shut us down for the duration - very active boards, and getting to be pretty big.

I am sure I don't move or prune enough to account for this - I mean, hundreds of returns of a search, non with the actual item in them. And posts with the item are not returned in the search results.

One problem has been figured out - that "s" at the end of the word is ignored, and that spaces between words are ignored - giving some results that were actually there, but not contiguous (eg: looking for Lyons - getting back "...ly on..." Like "only once" as an example..
But this is not the only search problem, nor an answer to all the bad results / missing posts.

( I have never pruned, and edits are a few a week, with a few thousand new posts a week)..