Automatic Area of Search through finder?

By default, every time I try to search through spotlight in finder, it automatically searches "This Mac". I was wondering if there was a way to have it search in whatever folder I am currently in like it did in OS 10.3. Instead it comes up searching my hard drive and I have to manual click on whatever folder I am in. Also, does anyone know how to make it so if you have something typed into spotlight in finder, it will stay in the search box instead of erasing whenever I move to another folder. It makes it very agitating to have to retype in the file name each folder I switch to. This is also another thing that had changed from OS 10.3. If anyone has any way to help me on either of these problems, I would really appreciate it. Thank you.

If you did this is applescript, you'd need to call unix through do shell script anyway, so don't bother with applescript. just use mdfind directly. e.g.:
# finds files that have a metadata attribute called MyKeyword with value DesiredValue
mdfind "MyKeyword == DesiredValue"
# finds files that have a metadata attribute called MyKeyword whose values start with Desi
mdfind "MyKeyword == 'Desi*'"
# finds files that have some metadata attribute whose value contains redVal
mdfind '*redVal*'
to make a smart folder just do a search in the Finder and then save it to the desktop (careful, it will default to saving it in the sidebar, which will put it in some funky folder down in you library). once you've saved it you can open it in a text editor or plist editor to see the contained mdfind command. Then it's just a question of modifying the right keywords. I have an applescript somewhere that does it, but it's not all that useful - almost as easy to make the smart folder by hand in the Finder, and there's no way to extract the files from the smart folder once you've made it.

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import java.util.Map;
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