Lion spotlight issues

Hi,
I've seen a few related issues in the forums.  Here's my problem:
I have a MacBook with 3 partitions.  One partition has Lion, one has Snow Leopard, one has Leopard.  I need it like this for certain reasons and normally all works fine.  But everytime I boot into another partition and come back to Lion it starts reindexing for about 10-15 minutes and slows the computer down significantly.  In my Lion partition I have the other 2 partitions added to the privacy tab in Spotlight prefs so it shouldn't matter what changes I make in those partitions right?  I have read some posts about Lion reindexing the entire drive after booting up but I don't think it's that extreme for me since it would take hours to reindex the entire drive and my slowdown is about 10 - 15 minutes.  I have tried to rebuild my Spotlight index and redo the privacy tab and so far same results.  Any thoughts?
Thanks,
rc

You didn't mention if you disabled the Lion partition in Spotlight whe using SL or Leopard. That should be why the re-indexing occurs when in Lion. The Lion filesystem gets modified by the other two OS X versions.

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    - When running a search directly on the server, everything seems to be ok. When running a search on a client (CMD+F) and searching inside a folder on a network share, search results are shown, but when trying to open them, i get an errormessage stating that the alias can´t be opened as the original file can´t be found. When conducting the same search on the server, everything seems to be fine
    What i´ve tried until now:
    - restarting spotlight server
    - reindexing all network shares
    - reindexing the client machines
    - checked permissions
    Nothing seems to help. Is there any possibility to reset the whole spotlight search system?
    Thanks a lot for your help
    Tobias

    I was wondering if you found a solution for the search issue? We're having the same issues as well.
    Thanks!

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