Processes by ALL users were running today - WHY????

This morning I noticed that the fans were running on my Macbook Pro, and checked the process status. I saw several processes (including multiple mdworkers) running under every account on my system, and do not know why these were running, since none of the other users was actually logged in, and none of them know how to submit anything to chron.
I also received an iMovie update.
Also, around the same time, SimpleText lost the ability to save files that I created and edited. Repairing permissions did not fix this.
I killed the processes from Activity monitor, and saved my text files, by copying their content into blank files created by XCode, then rebooted, and eveything seemed normal.
Is there a logical explanation for this?????

Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, I have set of launchd processes for EVERY user account on my machine even tho I'm the only account (jakec) that EVER logs in:
-+= 00001 root /sbin/launchd
|
|-+= 00656 jakec /sbin/launchd
| |--= 00659 jakec /usr/sbin/distnoted agent
| |--= 00661 jakec /usr/sbin/cfprefsd agent
|
|-+= 00663 _spotlight /sbin/launchd
| |--= 00666 _spotlight /usr/sbin/distnoted agent
| +--= 50423 _spotlight /usr/sbin/cfprefsd agent
|
|-+= 01163 anybody /sbin/launchd
| |--= 01173 anybody /usr/sbin/distnoted agent
| +--= 50421 anybody /usr/sbin/cfprefsd agent
|
|--= 50424 root /usr/sbin/cfprefsd daemon
|
|-+= 61432 _windowserver /sbin/launchd
| +--= 61434 _windowserver /usr/sbin/cfprefsd agent
|
|-+= 63634 sysadmin /sbin/launchd
| |--= 63645 sysadmin /usr/sbin/distnoted agent
| +--= 63651 sysadmin /usr/sbin/cfprefsd agent
|
|-+= 63635 art /sbin/launchd
| |--= 63646 art /usr/sbin/distnoted agent
| +--= 63650 art /usr/sbin/cfprefsd agent
|
|-+= 63636 jakec2 /sbin/launchd
| |--= 63644 jakec2 /usr/sbin/distnoted agent
| +--= 63649 jakec2 /usr/sbin/cfprefsd agent
|
|-+= 88020 _lp /sbin/launchd
| +--= 88026 _lp /usr/sbin/cfprefsd agent
That's nearly 20 processes that do NOT need to be running.
I've looked thru each account's launch agents/daemons to see if I could disable them, but it looks like they get started by system agents/daemons, and frankly, I'm not that adventurous to see which system launch agents/daemons I can disable without causing system malfunction.
--Jake Coughlin
([email protected])

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