Cannot search with Spotlight

Hi,
I cannot perform any search with spolight. I already removed the plist-File, which did not help.
When I login as admin, Spotlight works.
No I found an errormessage in console.log:
293: Can't create query: 0x10000003
2006-04-20 07:18:45.786 SystemUIServer[293] /SourceCache/BullSearch-121.34/Matador-121.34/SearchItem/Models/_MDQueryAdaptor .m -[_MDQueryAdaptor _createMDQuery] Can't execute query '(* = "aqu*"wcd || kMDItemTextContent = "aqu*"cd) && _kMDItemIgnore != *'
Does this make any sense to anyone?

Glad to know I'm not the only one!
Now I am only having the 'a' problem intermittently.
I tried doing two things... (bad science, I know, as now I'm not sure which one actually helped).
1.) I changed the permissions of the Applications folder (/Applications). For some reason my account didn't have read+write permissions on that folder. I added myself as having read/write permissions. Check using cmd-i on the folder in finder, at the bottom -- "sharing and permissions".
2.) I reindexed my Applications folder by adding it to the Spotlight exclude list, then removing it from that list (and then rebooted).

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