Finder searches, but never finds!

So I've seen related topics, but never anything that has quite helped the problem. As the title states, my Finder works, but using the search bar never finds anything. Finder will continue to search and search and search without producing any results. Spotlight also does this. I have tried repairing permissions, repairing the disk, booting from install disc, repairing from the disc, today I tried deleting the .plist files for finder and sidebar, but this resulted in nothing but making my desktop icons big (default size). Along with these problems, within the last several months, I have been unable to use the preview window option in finder as any time it tries to pull up a preview, the system freezes up for several minutes until the preview appears. ALSO, if I try to use the 'Get Info' command, the systems freezes the same way. I'm assuming that these problems are all related, as they all use some form of the finder. Any suggestions?

The fact that Spotlight won't index suggests you either have some hack which interferes with Spotlight, or data corruption that is interfering with it. I'm not sure that installing the combo update as BDAqua suggests will help or not. While it may give you a fresh copy of some system files, if it misses a cache or preference file for something that conflicts with Spotlight you are still going to be left in a lurch. Backup your data first since you still have access to your hard drive*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
Once that is done, we can analyze what may be corrupting Spotlight.
It is better to have a backup even with corrupt files which you can extract user saved data from than none at all.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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