further to the above,

I've noticed that on my DNN search it seems to only find words which were inputted from the first phase of development.

Is it possible that a search table can get full or stop working and stop indexing words after a certain date/time or event?

however, if anyone is interested....
i've since found a third party alternative to the DNN seach: a Google AJAX search with ‘in page’ results,
Example here:
http://www.eguanasolutions.com/DNN_Bl...

thanks,

I've cleared the search tables successfully many times before and also re-indexed the content before too (and it failed to work in the past).

However, this time it worked!

Only things i did different were:
1. I left the maximum word length at 50 (was previously 5)
    - this resulted in more words indexed, although not all

2. Tried the above again, but direct from the actual server rather than via VNC connection.

Then it worked perfectly!!!

cheers!