Spotlight is now bloody fast. And therefore, it's actually useful now. For the first time, launching an application is best achieved through Spotlight, instead of going through the Finder. I'm impressed.
Willing to concede that at least some of this is due to my now enormous memory capacity, but I believe I heard about this particular Leopard feature before. I'll know for sure after I get around to installing it on my cranky G5 desktop with its laughable 1.2 gigs.
I've found that Spotlight doesn't seem to index some files until you make it aware of them by moving/modifying/touching them, for some unknown reason.
OMG I got an email about this comment. Noah fixed my mail. Go Noah!!
(Now I have to set up email notification for commenters...)
karlvonl: I wonder if your initial Spotlight search just crashed at some point, and left the rest of your system erroneously marked as "dealt with".