How do you search Smart Folder?

I created a Smart Folder for my PDFs but can't search it with Spotlight. When I enter a search string my PDF Folder does a new search instead of filtering my PDFs. Is there a way to search the contents of a Smart Folder or are Smart Folders dumb?

Take a look at the information I put together about the new version of Spotlight:
http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/Leopard/leospot.html
Scroll to about the middle of the page for detailed instructions, with a picture even, on doing further searches in a Smart Folder to refine the results.
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