Spotlight can't see my new keywords!

I've got some photos in iPhoto from vacations. They've got keywords of where they're from. If I type in "Myrtle" in spotlight, I get all of the pics from our trip to Myrtle Beach.
I recently took a trip to Cunningham falls State Park in Maryland. I imported all of the pics into iPhoto and keyworded them. But if I go to spotlight, and type in "Cunningham" none of the pics come up. I checked the spelling. I waited a few days wondering if it takes time for the computer to realize it needs to index these. I tried a couple of other keywords for some other recently entered photos and no dice.
This isn't a major issue, but still it should work! I can't say for sure if this started specifically when I updated to iLife 6 or not, because I can't remember precisely when I did that.
I've tried the terminal trick found at the link below to no avail.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1727966&#1727966
Does anyone have any other suggestions on what may be causing it / how to fix it?
Thanks,
Dan P.

HI Dan,
I was just searching through the forum and saw your post. I just got the new 24" iMac for Christmas and after migrating everything over I noticed that Spotlight was not finding my keyword photos in iPhoto. I tried every trick in the book found in these forums and nothing worked. I have iPhoto Library Manager on my computer and found that it has a command to make iPhoto reindex a library. It worked like a charm! Within minutes, Spotlight found every photo in the library with my keyword search.
iPhoto Library Manager
iPhoto Library Manager documentation

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