How do I put Spotlight on a short leash limited to startup?

Spotlight is a royal pain in that is searched every drive it sees. It was half way thru indexing a system that was in target mode that I was transferring files from while I was doing sw updates. Now I realize that this is causing problems when I'm trying to image system for mass deployment as the drive is most likely being indexed as it is being copied and compressed. Also I work with video and have a ton of external drives hooked up. Some of which belong to others and I cannot change their preferences on their drive if they wish to use Spotlight on their drive but my system wastes time updating the index while I transfer files. Spotlight is no THAT much of a background process, it is WAY to active and needs to be pushed down in resource allocation.
The BIG QUESTION: Instead of being an option-OUT how do I make it an option-IN program where it ONLY will index the startup drive and I don't have to knee jerk jump the the preference pane and mark every HD private?

Install and register them on the new computer with the original installers; if you have deleted those download them again from your account.

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