After reinstall, help viewer and spotlight not working

Hello,
I am selling my computer. I zeroed out the harddrive. Reinstalled Leopard, updated everything, and now searching on a term in the helpviewer causes it to quit. I tried this, suggested by a person on this forum:
Hello,
Open the Preferences folder, locate these files:
com.apple.help.plist
com.apple.helpviewer.plist
com.apple.recentitems.plist
Drag those files to the Trash, empty the Trash and reboot.
However, the first two files do not exist. Searching on them, I discovered that Spotlight had not indexed all files. So I caused it to reindex, but it still is not finding ANY com.apple.... files, and they do exist.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.

Lalita Sarasvati wrote:
Hello,
I am selling my computer. I zeroed out the harddrive. Reinstalled Leopard, updated everything, and now searching on a term in the helpviewer causes it to quit. I tried this, suggested by a person on this forum:
Hello,
Open the Preferences folder, locate these files:
com.apple.help.plist
com.apple.helpviewer.plist
com.apple.recentitems.plist
Drag those files to the Trash, empty the Trash and reboot.
However, the first two files do not exist. Searching on them, I discovered that Spotlight had not indexed all files. So I caused it to reindex, but it still is not finding ANY com.apple.... files, and they do exist.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.
First check that nothing is excluded from SpotLight search
Then run activity monitor and see if spotlight is running - it takes a very long time on a new system to index everything. Maybe you only need to give it time.
I believe that there is a blinking dot in the center of the spotlight "lens" icon when it is running, but I am not sure.

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