Spotlight still not what it used to be...

In Tiger, spotlight gave you a nice neat list of the search results split into different sections depending on the document type. This was great for searching images because it'd also give you thumbnails instantly just for the images. Since Leopard, the search results in Spotlight are so much worse (see here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6435106&#6435106)
I was hoping that Snow Leopard's Spotlight would revert to the old layout but alas, no. You have a long list of jumbled files. Obviously these can be sorted or refined but this requires additional search terms/refinements and additional clicks to order the list etc. To put into thumbnail view you have additional clicks also and it works on all the files, not just the images. This is frustrating because I used to use Spotlight a lot. I'd add tags to the file info which would make image searching blissfully easy. Now, I basically never use it.
But I was wondering would it be so difficult to add a little additional functionality such that when I do a search using Spotlight, if I then, say, Apple-Click on the images sub-section on the drop-down it would open the search window with all the images as thumbnails? If I just single click, it'd still open the image I'm clicking... Does this make sense? And rather than just working on images, Apple-Click on any of the subsections and it'll open an instantly refined search for only those file types...
If anyone knows a way of doing this I'd be very grateful to know. More than that, if no-one knows how to do this, could someone point me in the direction of a features-request form to suggest it to Apple? It seems to me that it'd be very useful and a simple addition to the OS.
All thoughts/comments gratefully received!
Edward

Randall Vaughn-Ward wrote:
I'm just happy that SL allows search view settings to be saved.
As for refining your searches: try pressing the "+" button next to "save". You can then add many refinements. If you save the search, you can even refine your results by selecting "show search criteria" in the actions menu.
I understand this... what you're describing is exactly the refinement aspects I described previously. But saving a search does literally that - it saves a particular search (e.g. "holiday" images) rather than a search environment (such as 'only show images and display as thumbnails') that you can then perform other searches within (e.g. "holiday" or "London" etc.). That's the key part that's missing. Either that, or I'm using it incorrectly!

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