more problems. I've been able to reindex a hugh amount of the stuff 
on our systems but am stuck with the largest archives. Here is a 
sample of the very beginning, first two files of about 50 or so...

pandora:~/work$ /usr/local/bin/swish-e -M mergin index output
Input index 'mergin' has 2582 files and 14370 words
Input index 'index' has 1536 files and 11059 words
Segmentation faultn index 'mergin':  39%
pandora:~/work$ ls -l
total 5116
    1619661 Jul 13 19:53 index
     147951 Jul 13 19:53 index.prop
    2132219 Jul 13 19:54 mergin
     244150 Jul 13 19:54 mergin.prop
     392092 Jul 13 19:55 output.prop.temp
     630460 Jul 13 19:55 output.temp
      32944 Jul 13 19:55 swtmpfnumvPu9wd                     
pandora:~/work$ rm output.*         
pandora:~/work$ rm swtmpfnumvPu9wd 

pandora:~/work$ /usr/local/bin/swish-e -M index mergin output
Input index 'index' has 1536 files and 11059 words 
Input index 'mergin' has 2582 files and 14370 words
Segmentation faultn index 'index':  70%
pandora:~/work$ ls -l
total 5116
    1619661 Jul 13 19:53 index
     147951 Jul 13 19:53 index.prop
    2132219 Jul 13 19:54 mergin
     244150 Jul 13 19:54 mergin.prop
     392092 Jul 13 19:56 output.prop.temp
     630460 Jul 13 19:56 output.temp
      32944 Jul 13 19:56 swtmpfnumrxv5Gd

Suggestions would be appreciated. I can send the files to anyone that 
would like to try and duplicate the error.

config file

IndexDir public_html/Diabetes
IndexFile ./swish.index
IndexName "Insulin Pumpers Mail Archive"
IndexDescription "no other index was specified."
IndexPointer "www.insulin-pumpers.org"  
IndexAdmin "webmaster@insulin-pumpers.org"
MetaNames author description datamodified
IndexReport 3
FollowSymLinks yes
UseStemming yes
PropertyNames author description datamodified
IgnoreTotalWordCountWhenRanking yes
ReplaceRules remove "public_html/Diabetes/"
MinWordLimit 3
WordCharacters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789.-_'"
IgnoreLimit 80 1000
IgnoreWords SwishDefault
IndexComments 1
IndexOnly .html .shtml
NoContents .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg .pdf .ps .jpg .jpeg
FileRules pathname contains tmp
FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old. thr mail
FileRules title contains Profile
FileRules filename is index

Michael
Michael@Insulin-Pumpers.org