Shouldn't Spotlight find this???

I have about three folders on my HD (all in my user folder) with the name Kathy Ruth in the title. I type Kathy Ruth into the Spotlight search in the menu bar. OK, it finds two folders and one alias. But I KNOW there are at least three folders with that in the name. So I choose Show All from the Spotlight menubar. I click File Name in the Search window that comes up. Still only shows two folders and one alias. So I manually drill down in the Finder and sure enough, I find the third folder with Kathy Ruth in the title (called Kathy Ruth - copy). OK, if I COPY Kathy Ruth - copy from the folder and paste it into Spotlight, it STILL doesn't find the folder!!!
This is not the first time this has happened to me. Why does Spotlight often fail to find some files?

try re-indexing your computer.
open system preferences > spotlight
click on the privacy tab
click on the + sign, and add your Macintosh HD
now click on the - sign to remove it, and your system should start indexing.
(the magnifying glass will animate when doing an initial index)

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Hey Apple, Spotlight not only fails to work as
advertised, it's essentially useless. A search tool
that cannot be relied on is a search tool that is not
worth using at all. Your failure to make this vaunted
"feature" work by version 10.4.3 is really a black
mark on the Apple brand.
Here's my experience:
1. Upgraded from 10.3.9 to 10.4.3. Process was long
but went smoothly. New OS is snappier and has several
welcome new features.
2. Experimented with Spotlight. It quickly found text
buried in Word and other documents. Stellar.
3. Spotlight did not find text inside Wordperfect
documents. This did not surprise me because I don't
have Wordperfect on my system, so these files were
unreadable.
4. Converted the Wordperfect files to Word, saved
them, opened them and closed them. Spotlight still
did not find text in these files.
5. Created a new Word file. Spotlight did not find
EITHER the name of the file or the text inside it.
6. Used Onyx to re-index Spotlight. No improvement.
Turned computer off and back on a couple times. Still
no improvement.
Note: I have not made any changed to the Privacy
setting or anything else, other than to re-order the
display of Spotlight's results. Do not have any
third-party system software or utilities besides
Onyx, and this problem occurred before I even
installed Onyx. Also have never fiddled with the
command line.
Any tips? And any idea when Apple will get its act
together? This is a real shame. Apple should be
embarrassed.
-- Disappointed Mac user.
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