Vanished Files....still on HD somewhere!?

Ok, this is kind of weird.
I have misplaced some downloaded files. Apparently they exist somewhere, because my movie player can still play them, but I can't find them, anywhere. Some are quite large and I'd like to delete them. I've done searches for their titles, by kind, by size, etc. but nada.
I checked the folder where they're supposedly downloaded to, but again, nothing.
The "recent files" list in VLC player says they're on my external hard drive, but I just played one by selecting it from the "recent files" menu and I am not connected to my external HD!
Anyone else experience this extremely annoying happening?
15" PB G4, 1.67GHz power PC Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1GB RAM, 100 Gig HD

Ahh, Niel's solution is a good one but I agree with Tom that if Spotlight is not helping you find files that you know are somewhere on your machine, it's not doing a very good job as a search utility. (Sad to think about what one is to conclude when SL fails to find files that are maybe on your machine - what do you do then?)
The real solution here is that if you really have to find something or really have to know whether it's on your machine or not, abandon Spotlight altogether and use the freeware utility EasyFind, which is available on Versiontracker.com. It's slower than Spotlight but it does not rely on an index and therefore is far more reliable.

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Michael,
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*************** NEWS FLASH ******************
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