I just want to state a couple of things and hear someone say, "that's right".
1. In a solr query you can have multiple fq's, but only a single q. And yes, I can simply AND the multiple "q"s together. Just want to avoid that if I'm wrong. 2. A subtler issue is that when a full query is executied, Solr must look at the schema to see how each field was tokenized (or not) and the various other filters applied to a field so that it can properly transform fields data (e.g., tokenize the text, but not keywords). As an aside, it would be nice if the queryparser could do the same thing in Lucene (I know, wrong forum :)). Scott