Spotlight window is blank ("0 items") Snow Leopard 10.6.4

hello,
i just installed snow leopard yesterday and did all of the necessary updates. i am now finding that my lovely spotlight/finder window (cmdoptionspace) shows "0 items" repeatedly. i have since re-indexed the disk, but still, nothing shows up. using cmd+space to use the spotlight search seems to work fine. any help is much appreciated...i love this simple feature!
thank you,
jacob

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