How to fix "Find..." in the Finder???

Whenever I do a cmd F to find a file on my hard drive I get no results even though several results should be returned.
It's the same if I go to the Find menu on my desktop menu bar and select the "Find..." option directly. It never finds anything, no results, no messages, even though I know files exist.
As a test I created a folder name test, placed several files in it. While the window had focus, I did cmd F and entered various filename strings that should have been 'found' within the folder. But nothing.
I'm actually not a fan of Spotlight since I never need to search within files, just for files themselves.
Anyone know how to fix the "Find" in the Finder?

Spotlight doesn't search inside any files, and neither does the FInder (unfortunately, the Finder uses Spotlight for all of it's searches). Metadata importers for common filetypes and various applications put entries into the Spotlight database (well, that is the theory anyway). The Spotlight database is what is used to find metadata such as filenames, so a damaged or corrupt database can cause problems. A couple of websites you can check for troubleshooting ideas:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20061109235901299
http://www.macintouch.com/tigerreview/spotlight.html

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