Spotlight can't be trusted? Cant find in ~/Music...

Hey everyone,
Tried to do a quick search in the Finder for a folder in my iTunes Music folder. I was looking to see if I had an artist's album without opening up iTunes (which is still pretty slow). Anyway, neither the Spotlight menu search nor a Finder window search returned any results.
So I manually went into ~/Library/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music. Sure enough, there's the folder I was looking for.
I then repeated what I did - performed searches for ANYTHING in that iTunes Music folder. No results. Nothing unchecked in the Spotlight system prefs pane.
Really curious to find out if this is just me or if other folks see a similar problem!

One way is to play a song's preview and note the information displayed in the iTunes progress bar.

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