Terry Kerr writes:

.... But now when I instantiate my product in 2.2.0 or 2.2.1, searching only works when I search using a field index. Searching using a textindex always results in an empty result .... I use ZCatalog text indexes under 2.2.1b1 without problems (with a globbing lexicon!).

I had to fix some glitches (search for "ZCatalog glitches" and "Globbing Lexicon bug" in the Collector). However, none of my fixes had to do with your problem description. Dieter