Windows Desktop Search is crashing Outlook 2007

Sometime in the not too distant past, probably after I applied a service pack to Office, the search function in Outlook started crashing the application. When I enter a search term, Outlook runs about five seconds, then I get the famous Microsoft Office Outlook has encountered a problem and needs to close. I’ve sent countless error reports, but have yet to see any fixes appearing on the blogs and forums I read.

Any suggestions?