Spotlight broke by File Vault...now can't turn it off

Here's my situation...
I have a MacBook Pro with current disk usage of 64.5 GB with 46.9 available. I turned on File Vault for the first time ever a few days ago and everything seemed fine until I started searching for files with Spotlight today. It couldn't find files I knew were on the disk, so I stared searching for file names directly copied from files in my home folder and Spotlight couldn't find them. Spotlight is definitely broke.
After some searching, I found the way to force Spotlight to reindex the drive by placing the drive on the Privacy list and subsequently removing it. I then allowed Spotlight to reindex the drive. But, I still have the problem.
So, I said to myself, "the heck with it" and tried to turn off File Vault. But, it won't let me. It says I have to eighty-six 12GB from my disk to shut it off. Absolutely nutty. I have added no new files since I enabled the feature.
I would appreciate any suggestions on how to solve either problem. That is, if you know an alternate method to fix Spotlight or a way to shutdown File Vault without having to purge 12 GB of files I will be greatly indebted to you.
Thanks in advance.
Message was edited by: Peter Arnold1

Update: I was able to fix the Spotlight indexing problem by following this suggestion:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071111175055549
It appears my mistake was trying to re-index the entire drive. Apparently, in order to index a newly encrypted home folder you have to force a re-index of only the home folder. I added and then deleted the home folder to the Spotlight Privacy list and when indexing was complete Spotlight was fully functional again.

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