Indexing Filemaker Pro database with Spotlight?

...am I missing something or why can't Spotlight find ANY entries in my Filemaker Pro databases? I have set no exclusion for indexing.
All my Music, Movies, collections etc are catalogued in Filemaker but Spotlight can't find it. It lists everything else, iTunes songs,email attachments, words in documents and records and numbers in spreadsheets.
Thanks

I just stumbled upon a mdimporter for OpenOffice but I had to look inside the package.
app-package / contents / Library/Spotlight
OOoSpotlightImporter.mdimporter
I double-clicked and first time in 8 yrs using OS X, asked if I wanted to add to Spotlight Plug-in, so I said "yes."
Does an app (OpenOffice in this case) add its mdimporter to Spotlight the first time it launches? No.
There was none in /Library/Spotlight and I've never known about this, or the need to find and add to Spotlight. And this was only the 2nd application I've added that includes an importer (URL Manager is old but had one).
+(I would love to exclude url and bookmark(s unchecked) it still finds bookmark - Safari reads the bookmark.plist and writes them into ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/+
More custom prefs and features in the control panel.
Search inside the folder I am in, which seems obvious.
Ability to add a folder to the search index, or to update.
I would like Spotlight if it was half as good as Vista's (also has a much more robust open/save but those aren't enough reasons to use Vista.
Don't start indexing a drive that I just formatted and backing up to (ask first, and wait until I/O and system is "quiet").
Searching for tech notes on or a www.apple.com/support/spotlight or /leopard/spotlight didn't bring up anything but "features" but nothing useful.
Do I need a developer's manual to get more from Spotlight?
Path Finder search/find but it has a problem with preventing quitting and with shutdown/restart so I can't leave it in the background. It searches 'everywhere' so it can't just depend on Spotlight's indexes.... can it?
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