Spotlight seems to be of no use except for finding applications

Whenever I search for music, pictures, videos, or even simple word documents on Spotlight, it returns no results unless I first click "Show All" so the Spotlight window comes up and then only by selecting "Home" under "Where". Whenever I search directly from the Spotlight icon, however, it's basically useless, except for finding applications. What's wrong with it? How can I fix it so that it searches for everything that it was made to find?

Eyeonic -
As you seem to be finding, Spotlight's kind of problematic. In my experience it manages both to find too little and too much.
-- "Too little" because, rather than search your hard drive, Spotlight searches its own index, which by design doesn't include everything on your computer; plus from time to time the indexing process simply doesn't complete itself, or the index becomes silently corrupt. I don't trust Spotlight searches.
-- "Too much" because the unrestricted Spotlight search from the menubar returns every document that contains even a whiff of your search term, the result being that you may have to slog through 400 hits to find the one document with the filename you specified. (You can perform the search using cmd-F and that will help a bit but it's a few more keystrokes.)
For simple filename searches I've found it is best to simply bypass Spotlight altogether and use the non-index-based utility EasyFind (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11706). It's not as fast as the pre-Tiger cmd-F find but it produces more reliable and more predictable results than anything Spotlight can currently offer.
I'm hoping (without any particular basis for it however) that Apple makes Spotlight a little more useable in Leopard.

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