I figured out what the issue was!  My original explanation was a little off, my apologies for that.  I thought that all standalone numbers, such as "300", were being ignored. ...

Hi John,

I tried using a FREETEXTTABLE and this is working quite well.  The ranking is fairly accurate and the search by description functionality is far more dynamic than the CONTAINS...

Hi John,

Thank you for the reply.  Yes the expected search results are stored in one column.

Here is the information you requested.

Microsoft SQL Server  2000 - 8.00.760 (Intel X86)   Dec 17 2002...