Has anyone seen it recently?
Looking across my logs, it would appear not, but if someone knows otherwise I will keep the 'call' open, otherwise I'll officially declare our fix a winner, and mail the MySQL developers to find out why it should be so :-)
Steve.
P.S. Yes, searching for text in entry bodies using the search feature is DISGUSTINGLY slow. When Matt gets back we will set about making that our next priority fix.