How do I stop mds from dominating my Macbook Pro

I use a Macbook pro with a 2.53 ghz i5 and 8 gigs of RAM, running Lion 10.7.2. Right now the process "mds" is taking up 5.84 gigs of real memory and .6% of CPU, though earlier it was taking up 6 gigs of real memory and 30% CPU. Mds and spotlight have been slowing it down to a standstill for months. Initially I was told by an Apple Store Genius to rebuild my spotlight index, which helped for a short while before the computer reverted back to it's normal slowness. Then I suspected Time Machine's constant backups were the culprit, so two weeks ago I stopped those and started running nightly backups using a program called "Time Machine Editor". The computer was running great until today. Most of the suggestions I've seen for this problem are either 1) Reindex spotlight, which I've done multiple times to no avail, or 2) Turn off Spotlight, which is not an option since I spend most of my time in iPhoto, a program for which Spotlight is crucial. I also don't want to do a full OS reinstallation because it would take too long and I doubt it would be effective in this situation. I have a feeling that there is one file or set of files that is messing up Spotlight, is there any way I could find these specific files and get them to stop messing everything up? Or do you have any other suggestions? Restarts don't help either.

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These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
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