Time machine with spotlight does not seem to work

I created a text document with Pages. The text: This is a test for time machine.
I saved the document in 1 folder as a pages doc, MS Word doc, and rtf.
I gave each document a different name, so only the contents was the same.
After 5 hours I deleted the documents.
If I search in the folder using time machine, I can recover them. However, if I type "This is a test" spotlight cannot find them once they have been deleted.
I was thinking spotlight was supposed to work in conjunction with Time Machine. But it seems not.
Keith

WOW guys, I have been searching for the answer to this ALL DAY long. I even spent about 2 hours on the phone with a level 2 tech who could not figure this out for the life of him. Glad I found this page. Here is the catch however, the tech claims his 10.5.1 system does not behave this way and automatically spotlight searches everywhere. Even worse, I called the Apple store and they stated the same thing, that there new 8 core MP running 10.5.1 did not do this either, that spotlight searched everywhere even in the user/system folder automatically. Now I am totally lost. Are there different builds out there that work differently?

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