Spotlight Does Not Index My Time Capsule

Hi all.
I've been having this problem for about 6 months now. I've never been able to get Spotlight to pull up anything on my TC when I do a search.
I've checked every forum on the web that has anything even close to this topic and I've tried all the suggestions (using Terminal, placing TC into the Spotlight "Privacy" tab and then removing it, etc..) and nothing works.
My TC works fine, even though it is very slow on the wireless network, and I have nothing corrupted on it as far as I can see.
So my question is this: Is it that TC simply DOES NOT work with Spotlight?
Or is there something wrong with my Leopard? Everything else on my computer works perfectly fine.
Thanks, any help would be appreciated.

I have the same problem and posted the very same question last week, but no one replied.
Anyone from Apple?

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