Apd,

It's as if it detects an advanced query syntax and tries to
hand it to the indexing service.

Thats my guess to. Even though that service has been disabled (which
should not be /that/ hard to check).

However, while "@" and "#" are mentioned as special
chars in the service,

Documentation which is, afaics, not referred to by the search dialog or its
error messages.

so are some others and they work
fine in a normal search. Perhaps it's a bug.

Perhaps. But all we have is some "Hey, thats wierd ..." observations to go
on in this regard.

Thanks for the response.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser