Spotlight feature in my Finder got broken?

As I'm new on this forum hello to everybody!
So my problem is that Spotlight in Finder got broken.
Before when I was clearing up the search box with Backspace for example, the finder window was returning to his previous state (colum view or list view). (or it was in my dreams??)
Now it's get stuck in the spotlight view and sometimes keeps searching with nothing in the search box.
I've zapped both finder and sidebar .plists and problem still persists.
Created a test account, cleaned system and apps caches, reinstalled last combo (10.4.8) problem persists on both accounts.
I found it out after Finder crashed when I shutted down my other computer to which iMac was connected via wifi.
My system: iMacG5 10.4.8
Any hint for ? I figured it out today and its very-very annoing. And if it is possible to fix without fresh reinstall...
iMac G5 iSight Mac OS X (10.4.8)

the focus doesn't jump from viewwindow to sidebar.
That's normal. What about the plist? Navigate to ~(Home)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist and delete that file. Then log out and back in or restart.
EDIT: Yes, post the crash log. Perhaps someone will be able to read the tea leaves. Try to leave out repeating log messages if possible.
-mj
[email protected]
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