IBook G4 slowdown with find and sort

My wife's iBook frequently decides to slow down to a mere crawl, and it sounds like the hard drive (I think) is working steadily during these spells. Looking at the processes w/ top, find seems to be sucking up heaps of CPU time. I tried killing the find process, at which point sort and then makewhatis took over and continued beating on the machine. Any idea where these commands are issuing from and how to avoid them or at least reschedule them? (This often happens in the middle of the work day.) Perhaps this is a spotlight issue, since it started around the time we updated to 10.4. But I've noticed no such issues with my powerbook since updating to 10.4.
Thanks for any suggestions.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Errr... A quick reality check is called for. If you make files visible to the finder then they are no longer invisible files, so ignoring invisible files won't help you one bit. your best bet is to do a manual check for a file that starts with a "." (which would normally be invisible):
tell application "Finder"
          set thisFolder to folder "Pictures" of home
          set sortedFiles to (sort (files of thisFolder) by modification date) as alias list
          set newestFile to last item of sortedFiles
          if name of newestFile starts with "." then
                    set newestFile to item -2 of sortedFiles
          end if
end tell

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Dear Flash Group,
apologies if this is trivial, it's my first day using Flash.
I downloaded a Flash project from
http://www.flashorb.com/articles/benchmark_files/flash-benchmark.zip.
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> when I 'Debug the Movie' (Ctrl-Shift-Enter), it still
> tries to access port 8080! Obsiously, my replace
> command did not do what I thought it would do.
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> I opened the FLA file in a binary editor, and saw 4
> more references to 8080, One if them in 'Properties'
> of a WebServicesConnector, but I cannot figure out
> how to find the other occurences.
Might they be the result of that WebServicesConnector
reference?
> Checking on google, I see lots of people having
> similar problems, but no solutions
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and I've
never heard of this issue. I don't *think* the Find/Replace
dialog visits
panel contents, such as the Component Inspector panel, but I
wouldn't swear
to that.
> What do you guys do for code completion - is there
> a tool that would bring Flash on par with an
professional IDE?
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service. I know
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panel can be
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http://www.sephiroth.it/python/sepy.php
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stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
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was relying on
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>

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<[email protected]>
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>
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href="/glossary.html#Blogging">Blogging</a>
>>
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new window. So how
>> do I write a regex that will give me:
>>
>> <a href="/glossary.html#Blogging"
taget="blank">Blogging</a>
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>>
>>
>> Lance
>

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Message was edited by: dsbird

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