Solr search starting with 1 character spin endlessly

[Timothy Tagge]

Solr version:  1.4.1

I'm having some trouble with certain queries run against my Solr
index.  When a query starts with a single letter followed by a space,
followed by another search term, the query runs endlessly and never
comes back.  An example problem query string...

/customer/select/?q=name%3At+j+reynolds&version=2.2&start=0&rows=10&indent=on


However, if I switch the order of the search values, putting the
longer search term before the single character, I get quick, accurate
results....

/customer/select/?q=name%3AReynolds+T+J&version=2.2&start=0&rows=10&indent=on

I've defined my name field as text.....
<field name="name"      type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" 
required="true" />

Where text is defined as....
<fieldType name="text" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100">
      <analyzer type="index">
        <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory"
synonyms="customer-synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/>
        <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory"
                ignoreCase="true"
                words="stopwords.txt"
                enablePositionIncrements="true"
                />
        <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory"
generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="1"
catenateNumbers="1" catenateAll="0" splitOnCaseChange="1"/>
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.SnowballPorterFilterFactory"
language="English" protected="protwords.txt"/>
      </analyzer>
      <analyzer type="query">
        <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory"
synonyms="customer-synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/>
        <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory"
                ignoreCase="true"
                words="stopwords.txt"
                enablePositionIncrements="true"/>
        <filter class="solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory"
generateWordParts="1" generateNumberParts="1" catenateWords="0"
catenateNumbers="0" catenateAll="0" splitOnCaseChange="1"/>
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
        <filter class="solr.SnowballPorterFilterFactory"
language="English" protected="protwords.txt"/>
      </analyzer>
    </fieldType>

Am I making a simple mistake somewhere?

Thanks for your help.

Tim T.