spotlight NOT SEARCHING for files

My spotlight is not searching for files. When i type something in, nothing happens. It doesn't even say "searching". If i press "return" nothing happens either. Can anyone help


ps. i tried rebuilding the index via making hd private and then not. It rebuilt the index, but did not fix the problem.

Snowboard,

You might want to try deleting spotlight's plist and restart the computer.

The plist file is located in ~/Library/Preferences and is named com.apple.spotlight.plist.

Give it a try, tell us how it works out.

it didn't help. still nothing.

apparetnly before i deleted the plist, spotlight worked from within the finder, but not from the menubar. Now it doesn't work from either spot.

You need to logout after you delete the .plist file...

unfortunately that didn't help either

if should add that earlier today i had an error where the screen darkenned and told me i had to restart my computer by holding down the power button. Now my dock wont magnify even though its set to. my computer seems to be falling apart.

Oh my. Repair permissions? If not, seek applecare