Spotlight cannot search for type & creator codes?

I want to find some old ClarisWorks documents that I know are on my computer somewhere. Simple, I thought: Just search for documents dated before 2000 with creator code BOBO. But looking through the list of search parameters in Spotlight, I don't find either type or creator code. I know Mac OS X no longer uses these metadata, but they can still be useful, as in cases like this. Am I missing something? Is there a way for Spotlight to search on type & creator codes?

Thanks for the response. I solved my problem by just looking through folders of old files and checking dates of those with AppleWorks icons. Very 21st century. I knew there must be some reason I thought I could do such a search, so I fired up my old 'Pismo' PowerBook and indeed, the Finder search utility in 10.3.9 allows searching for Type and Creator codes. It also will search only on those codes, or on a date or other parameter; while with Spotlight I could find no way to search for, say, all files dated before 1/1/1999 -- it requires something entered in the top field, i.e. a word to search for either in the file's contents or its name. So I put in "the" and got a lot of results, but of course minus any file that doesn't contain "the". Not so smart.
I've never much liked Spotlight, which is way overkill for 95+% of the searching I do; I almost never used it in 10.4 (used Easy Find); in 10.5 at least it's fast enough to not be a major annoyance, though the fact that I can't make "File Name" the default requires me to keep a Spotlight window open in the Finder all the time (or have to manually click on "File Name" every time I want to do a search). Sure it's nice to be able to search the contents of files -- when I need to, but that's almost never. Meanwhile, Spotlight remains far inferior in simple, day-to-day usability to 10.3's Find utility.
So how do you find out how to do such a "Raw Query" search? "kMDItemKind" is not an immediately intuitive term, at least for ordinary mortals such as myself.

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