Noise Words

We were getting errors when users searched for the term "r&d" - with or
without quotes - so we removed all single-letter words from the noise
word files (.eng, .enu and .dat). We then started Microsoft Search
again and did a full population - "rebuild" was grayed out.
This stopped the error but now we get no results.
Questions:
1) Why are we getting no results?
2) Is "&" a word breaker? Can we change this?
Are there any messages in the event log from MSSearch or MSSCI?
Hilary Cotter
Director of Text Mining and Database Strategy
RelevantNOISE.Com - Dedicated to mining blogs for business intelligence.
This posting is my own and doesn't necessarily represent RelevantNoise's
positions, strategies or opinions.
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> We were getting errors when users searched for the term "r&d" - with or
> without quotes - so we removed all single-letter words from the noise
> word files (.eng, .enu and .dat). We then started Microsoft Search
> again and did a full population - "rebuild" was grayed out.
> This stopped the error but now we get no results.
> Questions:
> 1) Why are we getting no results?
> 2) Is "&" a word breaker? Can we change this?
>