There have been other threads on this but none of the solutions mentioned have helped me.

Spotlight has stopped showing any results for my Applications.

I've tried reindexing and removing the index so it rebuilds it. No change.

I've tried adding Applications to the Privacy tab and removing it, no change.

I tried repairing disk permissions and redoing the above, no change.

I've tried removing everything from the index except Applications and then I just get nothing for any search at all (except dictionary entries).

I tried adding a symlink in my homedir to Applications and reindexing, but no change.

Any ideas on what to do? I'm running Snow Leopard. This is driving me crazy!

Update: I've noticed that when I start a reindex with sudo mdutil -E / and then immediately do a spotlight search for an app that the app shows up temporarily until spotlight gets disabled due to active indexing. After the indexing is done the app entries go away.