Spotlight Not Looking in System and Library Folders

I recently purchased a new MBP, and consequently upgraded from 10.4 to 10.5. I started noticing certain folders not showing up in Spotlight when I look for them, and a thoroughly unscientific experiment has led me to believe it's not looking in the the Library and System files. I really want it to. I'm pretty sure this didn't happen in my old powerbook running 10.4. Is there a preference I'm missing? Going over System Preferences didn't yield anything.

system files are excluded from default searches. to include them enter command+f in finder to start finder search. click on "kind", scroll and click on "other". in the resulting popup select "system files" and change "do not include " to "include".
also, see this mac os x hint to make this default:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080229204517495
Message was edited by: V.K.

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