Searching in Finder - HELP

I often use the Finder application within the Dock to quickly find items and applications. But as of late it won't work like it used to. Instead of searching for folders and applications it searches for the text within applications. (Such as when I'm searching for the Airport Admin application it'll find a TextEdit application that has the word "airport" within it.)
How do I customize my Finder to search FOR files and applications instead of text WITHIN files?
Thanks much,
Tim

Nevermind. It turns out the application I was looking for was some how deleted from my computer. Thanks for looking though!

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