Regarding the request for a new thread instead of resurrecting an old one... Noted. It won't happen again. I happened across the thread after an unrelated Google search, and posted more as a stream conscience type of thing. The first thing I did after posting was to simply go out and try it myself on our dev box. I rebuilt the indexes and then checked the stats and of course saw just what you said. The don't all get rebuilt.
Bob McC