Smart Folders and the File Pathname attribute

In making a smart folder, choosing Other... from the attribute type pop-up menu presents a long list of attributes. One of them is "File Pathname".
From its name, I would think that a search on "converted" would find all of these:
HD300:Converted Items:A-M:Alfred.txt
HD300:Older Items:January:converted_datebook.html
Porta:My Files:Last Converted:All.dmg
In otherwords, anything with "converted" anywhere in its pathname.
But putting any value into the search field, with any of the options (Is, Begins, Ends, Contains) returns NO results at all.
This attribute seems to be broken. Am I right, or am I missing something?
Mac OS X (10.4.7)

It is "broken" in the sense that it was apparently not meant to be used for queries. Don't ask me why it's in the menu.
From Spotlight Metadata Attributes Reference
kMDItemPath
Complete path to the file. This value of this attribute can be retrieved, but can't be used in a query or used to sort search results.

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Francine
Francine
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