Cannot re-index nor find

Hi everyone,
since roughly a week my Spotlight is not working anymore.
The problems
I store all my important documents on my iDisk and use Spotlight to access them. Since we have a strict naming convention and Office:mac provides Meta-Data, that's fast and always backed up. Since a week I can still find the files in the Finder, but my Smart Folders stopped working and the direct Spotlight search also.
I tried to re-index first the directory, then the entire iDisk and finally my hole system. Now I cannot even add/remove items from my privacy dialog anymore to trigger the re-index.
Possible triggers
I followed this instruction before it stopped working.
I installed the Mac OS X 10.4.5 update.
An idea anybody?
It is really hard to work without Spotlight once you started using it.
/Sven
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

Sorry everybody,
shortly after posting this I found the fix at the macfixitforums. The solution was to delete the com.apple.finder.plist and reboot.
While I still have no idea what caused the problem I am extremely happy to have my Spotlight back.
/Sven

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