Spotlight not working in Address Book

I have upgraded to Snow Leopard and have noticed that when in the Address Book application that the spotlight does not function properly. Previously it would drill down to the specific text entered. Now nothing happens. Has anyone had this problem? Is there a fix?

I checked the spotlight preferences under the system preferences tab. the contacts box is checked. I could not locate any other places to set preferences for spotlight.
My upgrade to snow leopard was Sept 15th. That should be enough time for the system to index. I have also noticed at times that the contact data is mixed up. One contacts info in another contacts file. Using disk utility I repaired my drive. There were a couple of errors but they were repaired successfully.
During the last month I also purchased new RAM for the machine. I replaced the original 1GB with 3 GB. I don't see how this would be a problem though. Machine still seems to run fine.
Any further thoughts on why Address Book is not working? Is there a way to force Address Book to reindex?

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