Fan running all of the time

Hi,
I really need some advice as I am a mac novice. My 15" mac book pro is about a year old. I have the 2.16 core 2 duo model. Over about the last 5 days I have noticed that my fan has been running constantly. Not the very fast mode but more of the medium speed. Originally I thought that maybe spotlight was indexing but if that were the case it would have been finished by now.
I tried closing down all applications and doing a restart and that did not fix the problem.
I then tried going into activity monitor and really do no know wha any of this stuff really means. except based on the graphic unde CPU usage it looks like my CPU is being utilized. In addition it says Threads 252 processes 66. Whatever that means.
At this point I don't know what else to do or how to troubleshoot this. I am hoping someone can give me some advice.

What is your highest CPU reading in the Activity Monitor and what process is it?
Try resetting your SMC.
Resetting the System Management Controller >>
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