stop words make dismax fail

[Nagelberg, Kallin]

I'm having a problem when users enter stopwords in their query. I'm using a 
dismax request handler against a field setup  like:

<fieldType name="simpleText" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100">
      <analyzer type="index">
        <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/>
                        <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" 
ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt" enablePositionIncrements="true" />
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
                        <filter class="solr.LengthFilterFactory" min="2" 
max="20" />
      </analyzer>
      <analyzer type="query">
        <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
                        <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" 
ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt" enablePositionIncrements="true" />
                        <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" 
synonyms="synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/>
        <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/>
                        <filter class="solr.LengthFilterFactory" min="2" 
max="20" />
      </analyzer>
    </fieldType>



The problem is that when a user enters a query like 'meet the president', zero 
results are returned. I imagine it has something to do with 'the' being 
stripped out, then only 2 of the 3 terms matching. As a temporary workaround I 
set minshouldmatch to 1 so I do get results. That causes other problems though, 
such as 'the' never being highlighted in the results. Am I doing something 
totally wrong?

Thanks,
Kallin Nagelberg