Lightroom KEYWORDS searchable in SPOTLIGHT?

I was looking through the discussion boards but couldn't find an answer...here's my question.
If I enter keywords into Adobe Lightroom and save the metadata back to the original file, can spotlight search by these keywords??? I know in Tiger this didn't work but I was hoping it would in Leopard. I know that Lightroom isn't 100% compatible with Leopard yet but I thought someone may have the answer. Thanks in advance Mac community
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