Unable to seach personal folders in Outlook

[anoop]

I'm running MS Outlook 2003/SP2 on WinXP Professional SP2.

We are required to pull most of our email off the server so I
store them in various personal folders. When I use Outlook's
search function (tool -> find -> advanced find) on any of these
folders, it goes in an endless loop until it eventually quits even
though I have verified that the message that it should have found
is in that folder.

The search function works find on my Inbox.

Wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem and
if you might have any tips on how to debug/fix this problem.

Thanks,
Anoop