Looking for beach.slideSaver in Spotlight

I am looking for the file beach.slideSaver in Spotlight, but it does not show. I can not find any fo the screen saver files for Mac OSX. I have looked under /System/Library/Screen Savers, but they are not there.
Any Help?

Kevin -
It doesn't search there because - well, because Apple didn't design it to. Maybe it's paternalism ("users really have no need to see what's there") or maybe it's practicality (the files change so often that indexing them would stress the CPU), but whatever it is, it is. Pity that Apple fails to make this clear.
This thread has some suggestions for how to get Spotlight to index additional places:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=822724&tstart=0
Another alternative, which I personally prefer, is to download the utility Easyfind, which finds files by name without reliance on an index - and accordingly searches your entire drive, every time. Find it here:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11706
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