Can't Search PDFs in Bridge CS4??

I was considering using Bridge CS4 to manage my thousands of PDF documents, but have run across a problem on Win 7 64-bit.  Searching the fulltext of PDFs in bridge always yields no documents -- even if I choose to use Windows Search.   I have the proper ifilter set up to do fulltext searches of PDFs, and fulltext search does work if I just use the windows search box from the start menu, but it absolutely does not work work in bridge at all.
Any idea why?
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OK, I think I see what you are saying now.
When you click search with Windows on the Bridge toolbar can you see it searching through the folders?
As a test try a search for a metadata item like a keyword and see it the Windows search turns that up.  It may indeed be a bug if the nothing shows up.
Win7 and CS4 were not built to run together and there are still things to fix.  But with CS5 due out shortly, who knows how much effort they will put into that effort.

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