Continuing to "index spotlight search" in Lion?

how do i help my MBP finish indexing the spotlight search now that i've upgraded to Lion?

After Lion upgrade my TM took a long time and subsequent TM back ups should have been trivial but also took a long time. I searched google and found this:
http://maurodelrio.com/2011/07/24/fix-lion-slow-timemachine-backups/
which suggests to turn TM off, then delete the .Spotlight-V100 file at the root level of the partition that contains the TM directory. My TM location is a network drive on a Mac Mini, so I had to mount the network drive on the MacMini, then double click the sparse bundle to mount the TM directory, cd into the TM partition, then
sudo rm -r .Spotlight-V100
Now my TM backups are very fast.

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