Mds crawling at every log in after 10.6.6

What is up with the 10.6.6 mds processor use? Every single log in regardless of re-boot. Spins mds up for 5 min chewing on my processors and disk. Not cool. Never was like this before. The Mac Pro has the headroom but my laptop is choking. App store re-cache perhaps? 3 machines so far exhibit this. I am sure it is affecting more users. I mean after 5 min or so things return to normal but what a waste. Do we really need to rebuild every login?

Hi all,
Anyone also had problems with adding a Bootcamp partition to the Privacy list in the Spotlight prefs?
(I've just updated to 10.6.6 on MacBook 2GHz from 10.6.5.)
If I try to put it in, I get the following error as response: 'Error in Privacylist. Cannot be added or removed because of an unknown error' (freely translated). It just refuses me try to add the Bootcamp drive.
But after restarting the Mac and opening Spotlight prefs again, it seems to be added anyway...
Strange, cause after another restart it dissappeared again.
IMHO the 10.6.6 update is the most disastrous ever build. I've never ever experienced such a bummer since I bought my first Mac II with OS 6.x in 1990...
Yes, I repaired permissions, yes I backed up. Why not automatically repair permission from within the installer program before applying the update?
The MacBook is slower than ever and 4 out of 10 programs installed all behave very strangely (Pages, Safari, Numbers, iTunes, etc. etc. etc.). I was so happy with my old MacBook for 5 years until yesterday.
But I will stop complaining. Many other experience the same brainbreakers.
Let's find solutions! Apple, are you with us?
Regards,
Mike Hageman.

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In Windows 7, Microsoft updated UAC in several ways. By default, UAC does not prompt when certain programs included with Windows make changes requiring elevated permissions. Other programs still trigger a UAC prompt. The strictness of UAC can be changed to either always prompt, or to never do so.
[http://windows.microsoft.com/eN-US/windows-vista/What-is-User-Account-Control What is User Account Control?]
[http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Turn-User-Account-Control-on-or-off Turn User Account Control on or off]
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