Finder Search Results DATE CREATED / 10.5=MOST USELESS O.S. OF ALL TIME?

Please Please Please tell me there's still a way to turn on the view options in finder search windows/results to display a files "Date Created" / "Date Modified" / "Size" etc. (basically all the options we have in a finder list view window).
Seriously, if we are limited to Name/Kind/Last Opened with no way to see, at the very least, Date Created/Modified in the search results Mac OS 10.5 has just become useless to meet my needs. I mean totally and entirely useless. I mean sell my iMac and buy a windows box so I can find my files useless.
Just tell me there's a way to turn on ALL the view options.
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There does not seem to be any way to restore Finder's behavior and options for search as it was in Tiger etc. Leopard's Finder view options aren't even allowed any longer in search windows (go to View->Options to get a frustrating message about it).
There seems to be NO 3rd party utility to allow real-time file search and display/sort results by size -- obviously noone wrote it, since Finder used to be able to do that - until Leopard, that is.
If this is a bug it's a pretty big and obvious one. I've reported it on bugreporter.apple.com (I guess others have done the same).
If it were to be considered a "feature" in Leopard, it'd be one of the most limiting ones in 10.5 - this one and the Dock's Stacks are pretty high on the list of useless "new features" in Leopard. John Siracusa wrote in his excellent review about these and others (at http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/12) :
"+Not only does the Leopard Finder take no bold steps towards a brave new world of file management, it even further distances itself from a coherent incarnation of established file management paradigms. The changes in Leopard do indicate that Apple has taken a renewed interest in improving the Finder, but motion is not the same thing as progress. For where I'm sitting, it looks like one step forward, two steps back.+"
Speaking as someone who's been developing software on Mac OS X since pre-Aqua Mac OS X Server 1.0 days, I sadly have to agree...

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