Don't be silly! You'd rather go to mail to search for e-mail and rather go to word to search for a word file? Well nothing's stopping you but I bet the rest of us would enjoy not even having to think about which software we used to compose a document (did I mail that or was it an attachment?) and just get answers. Spotlight will hopefully be what the Mac is all about-- the computer gets out of the way!
By the way, smart lists (dynamic finds) look like one of the best features in years (I have items that, based on different meta information about them such as web pages (in the sites folder) and customer's web site (in the customers folder) go in different places. I am not about to make an alias to everything but a smart list enables me to make a folder called "customer A" and have it dynamically include EVERYTHING for that customer without me having to make copies or aliases or anything. Same is true for mail.
RJZ
Is Spotlight actually Tunnelvision?