Thanks John, this is the solution that i came up with too, but the speed is slow.  Are there any tricks or tips you have that might improve performance?  Now...

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Microsoft SQL Server  2000 - 8.00.760 (Intel X86)   Dec 17 2002 14:22:05   Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation  Standard Edition on Windows NT 5.0 (Build 2195: Service Pack 4)

OK, when it runs the Incremental population it is bombing.  Full population after rebuild works no problems.  Application log has many of these error messages.

The transaction cannot be updated in...

Nothing in the application log other than that the crawl started.  We are running it now and it should be complete by 12 PST.  I'll keep an eye on it...

I checked the noise file and I think I found the culprate.  I removed the line with the numbers.  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0.  Repopulation and...

Microsoft SQL Server  2000 - 8.00.760 (Intel X86)   Dec 17 2002 14:22:05   Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation  Standard Edition on Windows NT 5.0 (Build 2195: Service Pack 4)

The column...

You can use a union query here is an example

SELECT * FROM Database1.dbo.TableName

UNION

SELECT * FROM Database2.dbo.TableName