Finder's Spotlight Search

What happened with my Spotlight's Search Criteria? It contains nothing.
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Hello,
I just want to add: I faced exactly the same problem (limited to my Home-account, not present in another untouched admin-account for debugging purposes) – Unforunately I cannot offer advice since it just miracously went away…
Here is what I did: I contacted AppleCare (90 days of AppleCare after buying Leopard!) and they were very helpful.
• removed Spotlight-preferences
• rebuilt Spotlight Index (took hours)
• removed EVERY third-party software tweaking the system in any way (I have many like LaunchBar, DefaultFolderX, GoogleNotfiers, TagBot, SlimBattery, Plugsuite, InPutmanagers etc.) Check ActivityMonitor for "My processes"!
When all this didn't help they send me to the NEXT-Level Support (very nice guy too). Hinted at the ultimate solution (Archive&Install) but didn't want to get into this at the start (neither did I ).
We went over all the previous actions (found something related to HIToolbox in the logs as well – this was tracked to DeveloperTools installed, so removed this too).
Still no dice.
He then send me a software tool which took a snapshot of logs, processes etc. running to give to their debugging-engineers.
Over the weekend – without me doing anything I can trace to the problem the problem went away, came back once and was gone for good so far. Unfortunately overworked Apple-Engineers will not look at my data any more.
So I suggest: call AppleCare, go through all the ususal stuff they suggest and then ask for second-level support. Maybe THEN they will be able to find sth. It could well be that the use of some thirparty tool changed a preference somewhere on teh UNIX-level which doesn't show up in system-logs or else and is difficult to track down. That you face the same problem is an indication that this is not totally freaky or remote.
Greetings from Germany,
Rolf

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