Well I'm an idiot - the fulltext index on page_text was missing from a default installation. It didn't break searches but probably slowed them down tremendously. Also set engine to MyISAM on page_text to avoid cryptic error messages from MySQL.
<?php// vim: set expandtab tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4:/** * Smiley rule Plain renderer * * PHP versions 4 and 5 * * @category Text * @package Text_Wiki * @author Bertrand Gugger <bertrand@toggg.com> * @copyright 2005 bertrand Gugger * @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html LGPL License 2.1 * @version CVS: $Id: Smiley.php,v 1.2 2005/08/10 11:42:08 toggg Exp $ * @link http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Wiki *//** * Smiley rule Plain render class * * @category Text * @package Text_Wiki * @author Bertrand Gugger <bertrand@toggg.com> * @copyright 2005 bertrand Gugger * @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html LGPL License 2.1 * @version Release: @package_version@ * @link http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Wiki * @see Text_Wiki::Text_Wiki_Render() */class Text_Wiki_Render_Plain_Smiley extends Text_Wiki_Render { /** * Renders a token into text matching the requested format. * process the Smileys * * @access public * @param array $options The "options" portion of the token (second element). * @return string The text rendered from the token options. */ function token($options) { return $options['symbol']; }}?>