Can't remove folders from Spotlight Privacy

Hi there,
I've never posted on here before so please bear with me
I am running a 17" iMac with OSX10.9.5, 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM with over 100GB of free space.
I am also using DropBox to sync my files with a co-worker.
The problem: A few months ago I got access to a new database on DropBox. I didn't use it often so I added the folders to my Spotlight Privacy list but then unsynced the DropBox folder from my computer. Now I have RE-synced the original folders and have tried NUMEROUS times to remove them from the list. They disappear briefly to only reappear a few seconds later.
I need to be able to search these folders again so this is very frustrating at the moment.
I have tried dragging in the same folders and then removing them. I have tried dragging my hard drive into the privacy and then removing prompting the spotlight to index the computer but that doesn't seem to be working either. I tried the command sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100/* in Terminal, but again. They still reappear.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks so much in advance!
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Do a backup.
Quit the application.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart, open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

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