viewing the population? (sql server full text search) I'm thinking that when we are working on full text search, we might want to view how sql server FT engine breaks the data and indexes it. For my case the column being indexed are simple nvarchar strings with spaces (no punctuation). 

I'd want to be able to take the "tokens" out. Any idea if this is possible?
I think you need to be having a look at the Full Text DMVs here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174971%28v=sql.105%29.aspx

Specifiably I think you want something like:

SELECT * FROM sys.dm_fts_index_keywords(db_id('AdventureWorks2012'), object_id('HumanResources.JobCandidate'))
GO


or

SELECT * FROM sys.dm_fts_index_keywords_by_document(db_id('AdventureWorks2012'), object_id('HumanResources.JobCandidate'))
GO