Spotlight search for contact does not open contact itself

Hello everybody
I have the following problem:
if I search for an addressbook contact using spotlight it immediately comes up with a credible result. As I hit enter on the result, the address book app opens. So far everything is ok. Now what does NOT happen, is that only the address book app opens, it does however not show the contact for which I have originally searched and on which I have pressed enter. Instead I'm having to do another search in the address book search in order to display the actual contact.
In the spotlight options I have enabled address book searches, in fact nothing is disabled in there.
I also have the current lion software and I'm using a 13" MacBook Air i5.
Can anyone help?
Cheers!
Ben
PS: I know there's another thead that deals with this problem, however it's quite old and now there's iCloud (which I use) so it might be different...

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