>>Microsoft seems to indicate that Microsoft Search service is only available on NT or W2K Server....
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>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sqldmo/dmoref_ob_f_6ppw.asp
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>>There are other places on MSDN that say the same thing.
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>That could make sense as I never saw that option during the install.

I've SQL 2000 Developer installed with Full-text search at home on WIn2KSP3. When I ran install from SQL 2000 CD full-text search was listed under Server Components ( the first one on the list).