Perhaps its time to think about rolling our own
fulltext
indexing mechanism?
Short of that, there are still a few tricks we can do. First,
it was earier than I thought it would be to add MySQL's stoplist
to the code, so that's done now. Conversely, if you or others
want to customize the list itself, you can edit the file
"FulltextStoplist.php" in the code, and I can recompile MySQL
to use our cutomized one.
Secondly, MySQL 4.0 has a much fancier fulltext search feature,
so we may want to switch over at some point when 4.0 is "blessed".
It's already a pretty stable product from what I hear, it's just
not "officially" stable.