Opening files in Pages

When I use the Open dialogue box to search for files by filename in Pages, the results are completely unreliable. Sometimes it finds the file I'm looking for, but often -- half the time, at least -- it fails to do so. This is true both of files created in Pages and files created in other programs. I can successfully search by filename in the Open dialogue boxes of other programs, like TextEdit.
Has anyone seen this problem before? Is there a fix?
(Using OS X 10.6.3 and Pages '09 4.0.3)

The name extension is a part of the filename.
If I want to see every Pages documents it's an easy way to get them.
The search by type isn't more efficient.
Just an example.
Here is a folder where I store mopst of the Pages document created when I respond here.
I took care to display the folder's location.
Now a screenshot of what is returned by Spotlight searching Pages documents. The HD storing the folder above is searched.
None of the 123 documents is returned
This is why I use FindAnyFile which find all of them.
Given that, I may understand the OP's frustration
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 5 mai 2010 18:48:11

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