Telling Spotlight where to look

Well, after an explosion and two completely broken PCs, I've now got an old iMac G3 running Tiger.
Is there a way to restrict the search area the Spotlight menu to, say, the Home folder?
For example, if I have a Pages document called 'paper' in the Documents folder, and I look for it in Spotlight, it returns programs and scripts from the innards of the bin and sbin folders.
So, put simply, I'd like to be able to restrict Spotlight to searching in the Home folder, and stop it indexing the rest of the system. Is that possible?
Thanks in advance.

Thanx for your help. I've actually found those two hints before, but somehow didn't manage to open the .Spotlight-V100 folder with Path Finder and henceforth ignored this lead (as I'm not really familiar with command line tools).
Anyway, after reading your post I've finally decided to follow the instructions in the MacOSXHints comments and successfully edited _rules.plist (adding /System and /Library to the EXCLUDE entry) and reindexed my drive. Excluding those two folders was some kind of overkill for my problem as it apparently broke my mail search as well, so I restored my _rules.plist to the original state and reindexed my drive again. However, after the second refresh of the index Spotlight seemed to work accurate again an didn't show any system related files in the results.
Just in case someone encounters similar problems, simply try to reindex your drive using the following command in Terminal:
*sudo mdutil -E /*
+Side note:+
+I have not installed any Spotlight related third party tools before (like SpotlightIndexer) and didn't even edit my Spotlight privacy settings until this error occurred (I did a fresh Tiger installation just two weeks ago). Seems to be some kind of glitch that happened to my index file.+
Thanks again for your effort and for "pushing" me into the right direction.

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