Spotlight not finding (some) apps by German names

Hi,
I today ran into a problem with spotlight that, I think, wasn't mentioned here yet. I wished somebody could help me.
I am using Mac OS X with German as the default language. So some apps, especially in the Utilities folder, then have a different name - their German translated name. E.g.: Directory Access>>Verzeichnisdienste, Keychain Access>>Schlüsselbund, Console>>Konsole etc.
Now if I type in one of these German names Spotlight doesn't find any result for applications on my PowerBook. But if I type in the English name of one of these apps, they are found.
However this issue doesn't apply to all of these translated-name apps. For example there are "Disk Utility>>Festplatten-Dienstprogramm" and "Installer>>Installationsprogramm" which are found by German name - not by English name (I think this is the way it should be...)
I've just deleted the Spotlight index and let it build it up from the ground. However, nothing has changed. This issue doesn't occure on my sister's or girlfriend's iBooks as well as on the PowerMac G5 of a friend. They all use German as the default language and have all installed 10.4.3 like me.
Any ideas what goes wrong here? Thankful for any help...
Regards, Canubis

my guess is that the spotlight index was damaged during the hard shutdown. You should reindex your drive. add it to soplight's privacy tab in system preferences. close system preferences, open them again, remove the drive from the privacy tab and close system preferences. Your hard drive will be reindexed and spotlight should work fine afterwards.

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