Did our anti-SMSspeek filter get in your way tring to say Control+Shift+"R"?
Sorry about that. I've had to deal with it myself.
Unless IBM's done something to it, typing in wildcards for the resource name search works just fine for me. I'm using Eclipse Galileo and have been making extensive use of that feature lately.
The one thing that can interfere with that ability would be if you had filtering on the resource search due to either using a specific filter or due to use of a Working Set definition. This is easy to check. If you can't get the resource listed by typing in its full name - or by not typing in anything and seeing it in the unfiltered list, then the wildcard search won't work either.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.