Finding old Quark files to delete

Hello,
We currently have a server that has been having stuff transferred to it since 1997. We switched to InDesign a while back and now I'm looking to make some more room on the server. What I'm hoping to do is do a search to find all Quark files from 2005 and before so I can delete them all. I don't want to find artwork from before that as some of it is actually still in use. Logos/headshots/photos etc... Any help on searching for these would be grateful. Thank you.
Randy

Thanks Baby Boomer. My problem is there are thousands of these files all with various names, none of which use an extension such as .qxd
Sample Names:
redington 1/16
Amoco 1/8
Mcdonalds 012599
So when I do a search, I'm not sure what exactly to search for. It seems like the regular finder has more options than spotlight does as far as date range and stuff but I can't figure out how to locate these files in particular.

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