Hi Johann!
There is something really wrong with your search function. If I search all *.java files of the project (with the gnome commander at linux, btw. :-)), it finds 55 files including this string. But it should not be a matter of the used OS, if it finds text inside files. Are you sure, you haven't set a wrong file filter?
Pretty sure, I tried it on two different computers, with everything on: Search hidden files, search system directories, do not consider upper/lower case, and so on. After now knowing that "area" is in StyledConverter.java I renamed it to StyledConverter.txt and now it is found. But I find no rule in the windows search that excludes java-files from being searched, I chose "all files and folders". When I cut off the extension, it is not found. When I search for files with name *.java that contain area also nothing is found. When I rename the file to .doc it is not found, called .rtf it is found. .c: yes, the same with .h. Now I am pretty sure that Windows XP has a list of text file types that a "worth" being searched. Others are excluded. So the Windows search "inside files" is pretty useless. But I am not astonished about that. Dani