Should Spotlight be indexing non-image files inside my iPhoto '11 Library?

The title says all. I've noticed that certain Spotlight searches sometimes turn up obscure files inside file bundles, such as inside my iPhoto library:
This doesn't seem normal. How can it be fixed?

That is generally true: when I want to find something that I know to be inside an application bundle I use EasyFind (and even with that it is necessary to explicitly tell it to look inside bundles). But I just checked using the search for phrase of "PhotoFaces" which is a sub-sub-folder and collection of files inside the iPhoto Library, and Spotlight found it with no problem whatsoever. I presume that whatever magic the programmers did to allow Spotlight's indexer to get photo files just works for everything in the iPhoto Library.
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-- Yes: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/photoshoplightroom.htmlhttp://www.adobe.com/devnet/photoshoplightroom.html

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