Spotlight "Show all in Finder" not working

Hello
I have a mac book pro 2.7 Ghz i& with 16 GB RAM
1) Whenever I search for something in spotlight, when I click on "Show all in Finder", nothing happens
Also, When I check the preferrences, I have some yellow triangles for the keyboadr shortcut
I've reindex everything but same issues comes up.
2) Also, it seems that it only searches on local drive, not on my external drives as well, even though they are also indexed.
Thank you

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iPhoto and iTunes use Apple Events quite a lot.... if you have either of those apps running, you might see what happens without them. Failing that, see what happens when no applications are running. Finally, see what login items are being fired up (System Preferences => Users and Groups => Login Items) and disable those.
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