10.5.7 Translator and mds processes running at 100%

Hi,
Since 10.5.7 installation I've had a couple processes that decide to operate at high CPU load with no apparent cause. With no applications running I've had Translator and or mds operate at 100% CPU load, making most other operations impossible.
I am aware that mds is linked to Spotlight and placing my system disk into the Spotlight privacy list seems to temporarily solve the mds problem. However, the Translator issue is different. Once it starts drawing high CPU load it will not stop. I've tried to quit the process and it leads to a OS freeze. With or without trying to quit it, it leads to having to do a hard reset as soft resetting or shut down is also frozen.
I first installed 10.5.7 from software update. After seeing issues I tried other's suggestions to use the combo update. This seemed to work momentarily, until the same issues started popping up again. Anyone have similar issues? I don't think I'm the only one ... I hope!

Translator is linked to the Address Book and sync services with MobileMe... I've had it crashing since 10.5.5 Doesn't seem to actually do anything as all my data is synced correctly. Go figure! Here're a couple of lines from this morning's system log.
May 26 06:50:27 synner-mbp com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[11827]: 2009-05-26 06:50:27.042 Translator[12402:10b] Invoked to sync conduit com.apple.ExchangeConduit for entityNames: com.apple.contacts.Contact,com.apple.contacts.Email Address,com.apple.contacts.Phone Number,com.apple.contacts.Street Address,com.apple.contacts.URL
May 26 06:50:29 synner-mbp ReportCrash[12403]: Formulating crash report for process Translator[12402]
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