Why can't I get spotlight to index Entourage files

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I have been doing some reading on this and cannot understand why my
Entourage (11.3.3) cannot have its email messages indexed by
spotlight. I am on Max OS X 10.4.8.

Interesting to note, I have no Microsoft Entourage.mdimporter file
anywhere on my Mac. I am not sure where that is supposed to come from.

Also, the directory ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Microsoft/Entourage/ has
no values in it, which I gather from reading are the files spotlight
goes to index the Entourage email.

Any help would be appreciated. This copy of Office Mac was originally
on my 10.2 OS box (which doesn't have spotlight). I just dragged the
directory over to the new OS, but Office is supposed to auto-install
any items it needs. Everything works fine except for this.

Thanks.

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