Spotlight in Save As / Open Dialogs

Hi!
My MacBook (SL 10.6.1) has some serious issues with spotlight. If I try to use it in a Save As / Open dialog in any application, it seems to be working fine, but the applications hangs right after closing the dialog box. I have already tried to delete finder/spotlight .plist files, rebuild spotlight index, check console logs but none helped.
I have found older topics on this issue, but no solutions there.
Any ideas?
THX in advance!
Regards,
b3h0ld3r

You've eliminated a local condition as the problem so now you know it is global, something involving the entire system. I've tested this on both my desktop and notebook with Pages, Photoshop Elements 8, and TextEdit and couldn't reproduce your freeze. (They happened to be the programs I had running at the time.)
I recommend reinstalling the OS as a last resort and this may well be the last resort time. Assuming you have forced Spotlight to reindex your hard drive(s), I can't think of anything else to try.

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