[Koha] zebra issues

[Erik Lewis]

Details Koha 3.03, Ubuntu 9.04
-loaded about 90k worth of marc records into koha
-verified that they loaded
-ran Zebra rebuild_zebra.pl -b -w
-got an error when zebra couldn't create a few lock files, created the  
directories and kicked it off again
-came back prompt had returned no other messages
-restarted the zebra server
-opened OPAC did a search

Got this:

No Result found!

No results match your search "tree branch:Dalton-Whitifield County  
Library"

Went hoping around to various log files and saw nothing that really  
caused me any concern.  Checked and I have some giant Zebra files, but  
still no search results.  I've started and stopped a few dozen times.   
Nothing.  At this point my suspicion is I really do not know what I'm  
doing with Zebra and need a few hints on the obvious things I could be  
missing.  I know the details are sketch but any clues as to what I  
should look for?