How can i get spotlight in lion to work?

spotlight does not list anything other that web, wikipedia, and dictionary options as I type into it.
"sudo mdutil -i on /" is a terminal command I have tried. It "enables" indexing but spotlight still does not work.
any ideas?
Thx
Rob

This may help http://www.discoveryourmac.com/SpotlightTips.html

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