Spotlight on menu bar working on one mac but not on other...

On my father's Mac mini, I can put a file in his home folder and Spotlight on the menu bar will find it. This is not the case for my iBook however, as I have to either re-index my whole drive or search within my home folder using Finder to find my file. I can, however, find any other file outside my drive using the blue icon.
What have I done wrong?
Regards,
Adam

I've fixed it now. I realised that I had changed my home folder so Spotlight got confused. I changed the path in the NetInfo manager and everything's fine, for now...
Regards,
Adam

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