Date added column blank

i love the date added column. I think it's one of the best unmentioned new features in Lion.
I reinstalled OS 10.7 2 days ago, went through all of the updates to get current, because I was unhappy with the speed of my iMac 27, 3.4 Ghz & 16 gigs of RAM. The speed is unacceptable. (nothing changed, speed-wise)
Today I notice the Date Added column in any finder window is blank, except for 2 hyphens "– –".
Has anyone seen this or heard of it before? Did I hit a switch or turn something off by accident? I haven't made any other changes besides the reinstall.
What am I missing here?
Thanks,
Gregg

Thanks SmokeMonster, That did it. Actually I had installed Lion on an external drive and forced indexing to stop by putting my other drives into Privacy in Spotlight. I didn't realize that it would carry on when I went back to running on my internal drive.
Paul Williams3, open Spotlight in System Preferences. Click on the Privacy tab and drag your hard drive(s) into the list to prevent Spotlight from indexing. I think you get an "Are you sure you want to do this?" message. Go ahead. This deletes the spotlight index of whatever you drag in there.
When you select whatever you put in there and click the minus button at the bottom left of the window, Spotlight will immediately begin to reindex.
Have a good day!
Gregg

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