It is generally accepted that searching for content in MOSS or WSS 3.0 requires the content to first be crawled by the SharePoint Search Service.  However in traditional Enterprise Content Management (ECM) scenarios this typically doesn't make a lot of sense.  If evaluate how most organizations manage content for the purposes of managing that content, you will quickly see why crawling content doesn't make a whole lot of sense.  A typical ECM related business process involves the capture (data stream or scanning of content), categorization, processing, and archival of content.  In many cases significant time, money, and effort is expended in these...