I have OSX 10.4.10, and Entourage 11.3.6. Spotlight worked fine, but
I had to rebuild my OS. Now spotlight doesn't show up in preferences-
general and even rebuilding the Spotlight DB doesn't help. Ideas?
I see you have it working now, but for future reference, the indexing is
triggered by the presence of this file:
/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Entourage.mdimporter/
(note: that's the Library folder at the root level of your startup disk)
This file was installed by the update which brought spotlight indexing to
Entourage (I forget which one that was). In a system rebuild, or if you copy
the installation over to a new system, this file is not transferred, so no
indexing is available. In that case, the 'spotlight' section of the prefs
does not show up.
In future, just locate and save a copy of this file before wiping the system
clean.