How do I stop Dashboard from eating my processor?

Lately my fan has been running way more than usual, and independently of how much work I'm making it do. When this is happening, and I take a peek at the activity monitor, its always one of three "Dashboard Client" processes that is going crazy, not responding, and using up 99% of the CPU power. Is there any way to prevent this without having to kill the process manually each time? It happens a couple of times per hour, so it's really annoying. Also, does there really need to be 3 "dashboard client" processes running at all times?

The "Dashboard Client" processes are the dashboard widgets. Some run only when you open the Dashboard, some run in the background as well. It's a minor annoyance that under Leopard they all just show as "Dashboard Client" (under Tiger, the widget name showed in the process). However, you can select the process that's hogging the CPU, click Inspect, then click the Open Files and Ports tab, and the text there, you'll see the path/name of the widget (e.g. /Library/Widgets/Dictionary.wdgt/Dictionary.widgetplugin). Once you've identified the offending widgets, remove them with the Widget Manager in Dashboard, or see if there are updated versions that may run properly.
As a side note, also check the Kind column in Activity Monitor - I see this more commonly with PPC widgets. AirTrafficControl comes to mind as a widget that had this issue.
One more tip - rather than wait for the fans to spin up to tell you that your CPU is running full out, or leaving Activity Monitor open all the time, you might consider iStat Menus, a preference pane which places a CPU activity monitor (and other monitors as well, if you like) up in the menu bar.

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