Spotlight doesn't appear when I click on it or when I use the cmd space....

All of a sudden it stops coming up. ??????

I'm having the same problems. Spotlight doesn't respond when I click on its icon in the menu bar, and splat-space highlights the icon but doesn't open any windows.
If I click on a Finder window and hit splat-F I can open a finder window but it appears it stopped indexing a while ago because I don't see any new info. I've deleted the index and it's reindexing now, but no change in the Spotlight icon behavior.
I have Now-Up-to-Date as well, and I'm running the current version, but I'm a bit nervous about deleting that startup folder without knowing what that will do. If that simply removes the icon from the menu bar I'm fine with that.
Spotlight does occasionally work. I don't know why but it'lll suddenly kick into gear. These days, though, it's not available 95% of the time, which is a bummer as I really like it and used it a lot.

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