Spotlight on folder not working

I had a workflow running for about a year. Copied invoices and service reports and e-mailed them out then put them in a completed folder.
But now, nothing happens. Fired up a new workflow, and just used spotlight, used
.dmg
and in
Desktop
and the results box is empty. (there are .DMGs on the Desktop) I've even done a full computer search.
Is this a known prob with 10.5.7?
Check that, does work with full system search, but not on a folder.
Message was edited by: MudShark

I am seeing the same behavior. If I delete the comment it continues to show up.
However if I put in a new comment without the [ char the search behaves correctly. I can even put in a single space and that will cause the search to fail.
So unless I'm totally missing something I have to say this is a bug.
Sorry I don't have a solution.

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