Browsing photos with Spotlight?

Hello everybody!
When I search some photos with spotlight is there any way to browse with the spotlight "slideshow" those folders spotlight find?
I mean, I have photos of cars in a folder named "cars". When I search for car photos I have the searchword "cars" and I find that folder (cars), is there now any way to see those photos inside that cars-folder with the spotlight? Or should all the files be somehow named "cars"... I hope you got my point.
Thanks in advance!
-pd
Mac OS X (10.4.3)

I have quite a few things that show up with the search term "flowers"--some image files (which you can see in slideshow by pressing the play button in the Spotlight window view), and a couple of folders. The easiest way to view a slideshow of the items in one of the folders is to double click the the folder in the Spotlight window, which opens that folder. Then select all the items, and control-click on one, and select "Slideshow" from the contextual menu.
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