Spotlight can't find iPhoto 6 keywords

Hi,
I've got Tiger 10.4.4 installed with iPhoto 6. I've keyworded some of my photos in iPhoto but I can't search on them with Spotlight. To attempt to address this I've tried the following with no joy:
- Added my hard disk to the privacy window in Spotlight preferences and removed it.
- Renamed the ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/iPhoto.ipspot file to force a rebuild (which it did).
- Reindexed the ~Pictures folder in spotlight via Terminal
- Added a dummy keyword to all photos then forced a Spotlight reindex
After all this it still isn't working. Anyone with any ideas as to how to remedy this situation?
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

For what it's worth, Payton, my Spotlight still functions the same as yours did, and has for as long as 10.4 has been around: double-clicking a photo from either of Spotlight's results areas - separate window or menu bar list - opens that photo in iPhoto, maximised, if Spotlight knows that photo to be in iPhoto (obvious from it being located in your iPhoto Library folder). Preview is also my default application for all images.
Note that selecting the same image in the Finder will open it with the default application and not iPhoto; but then as we all know by now, don't tamper with files in the iPhoto Library folder.
This Spotlight behaviour makes sense to me, as having Spotlight open an iPhoto image in anything other than iPhoto is going directly against the don't tamper adage. Say you open an iPhoto image from Spotlight into Preview; there you make colour changes, crop it a little, and resave; you've instantly 'tampered' with the iPhoto library as iPhoto no longer reflects the actual state of that file. You may simply be interested in harmlessly viewing the image but as iPhoto is designed to be the 'guardian of all images it contains' it's logical for it to step in when one of its photos is being checked out.
Having said all that, I can't suggest why your Spotlight-result images are now opening with Preview..! Despite my post above, where I fixed my "(i)Photos not showing up in Spotlight" problem, I've only just noticed that the problem has in fact returned, and Spotlight has 'forgotten' ALL keyword data up until about that point where I had fixed it (and had it working...). Only photos added since then show up in searches, despite using the same keywords etc. I despair, sometimes...
Just a thought, but I presume you didn't also delete the iPhoto.ipspot file earlier, did you?

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