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I stumbled across a blog post the other day where someone modified the GoogleSearch and GoogleIndex binaries to get additional files indexed.
Larry Gadea has wrapped those changes, and more, into some nice easy plugins to the Google Desktop Search. http://www.trivex.net/
Also, for those unaware Google has opened most of their downloaded features to the public: