Spotlight not showing files

Have brand new iMac running 10.8.2.
All going great except:
1 Spotlight will list files I search for very quickly top right but I can't get it to 'Show All in Finder', it just does nothing. It means I can't actually locate anything.
2 I've noticed similar issue on downloads on my Safari (6.0.2), it will list the downloads but will also not reveal where they are in the finder.
Any help much appeciated...

Spotlight is showing them just fine—for me, anyway.
It's the "Show All in Finder" command that it won't do. I see the immediate drop-down list and can open from that list, but if what I'm looking for didn't make it onto that initial list, I'm stuck.
If Alfred will work, then at least I have a temporary work-around.
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