Applications lens no longer provides results

It used to be that the application lens was first in the list of results --- it's still there, but apparently second in the list. Regardless, it never provides results - "gimp," "synaptic," whatever. It doesn't work if the daemon is running, nor if I restart the daemon. When I tried "unity --reset" that did the trick -- however, upon reboot, it still won't work.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity-lens-applications 5.12.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic-pae 3.2.30
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 29 14:25:40 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-lens-applications
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)