Cannot disable spotlight - endlessly indexing

Hello all,
I cannot disable spotlight - it is endlessly indexing.  I have dropped the main drive into Provacy under Spotlight.  I have dropped my other 3 drives there as well.  I have taken them out and reurned them many times - no change.  I repaired disk permissions many times - no change.  I downloaded and installed the 10.6.8 Combo update - no change.  It keeps indexing and says: Indexing _____________'s Mac Pro. And the estimated time is not there - just that barber pole.  And I believe it is affecting my applications - I am having major problems with Avid's Pro Tools 9.0.6.
Is there anything else that I can try?  I do own Spotless but I stopped using it over a year ago - it didn't seem to do anything more than what I could do using the Privacy option.  It it possible that Spotless might be able to do something that I cannot?
Any ideas would be welcome.

Maybe some file is corrupt in such a way to hang up spotlight.  Is it possible for you to run with just your boot drive with the other 3 drives physically removed from the machine?  See if it loops that way.  If so something may be going on with the boot drive.  If not, start adding the removed drives back one-by-one until it gets caught in the loop again. 
If this method works at least you can narrow it down to a specific drive.  Of course that won't tell you what the problem is on that drive but you at least have a single drive to concentrate on as opposed to 4 of them.
Since you already tried adding these drives to privacy I am not going to suggest the mdutil command to erase the indices (-E) or flag for no indices (-i).  I don't think it will change anything and of course won't resolve why it is looping.
Also note that this problem is not unique.  Look at the right side of this page for More Like This.
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