Now I know this is not a new subject and the solutions are out there. So I'm writing this (short this time) article as a basic summary of what I've come across.
So what's the problem?
Some of you must have come across this before. The Shared Service Provider's crawler get stuck and you can't stop it. It also does not add any new items to the index.
I've found two great articles that deal with this issue.
The first one by Mike Hanley explains how to resolve this issue with clear instructions and good screenshots. It can be found here.
The second is a support KB by Microsoft which expands what is explained in Mike's article by adding more tables which need fixing. It can be found here under KB930887.
