Slow Yosemite, partially solved; nagging spotlight issues

Since I have upgraded to Yosemite, I felt like I was using Windows 95: Services regularly in an unresponsive state, spinning ball all the time with the computer freezing for 5 seconds at a time, Mission Control not showing up, etc.
From this forums, someone suggested that I may have incompatible software, so I looked more closely and started to disable various kernel extensions, etc.
Things got better when I got rid of
- Pace drivers and updated them
- CleanMyMac 2
Then I still had some services stuck, especially CoreAudio; another thread suggested that it may be the program 'Hear'.
- Hear... gone...
The mac worked better; Mission control started working again after I deleted most of my profile data.
But there were still some issues and the computer was just slow.. I had a lot of error in the console with spotlight trying to index files owned by a user that doesn't exist; I removed those files and it was like having a new computer.
But still a slow new computer...
I looked more closely at spotlight's activity and I found that it is indexing a lot of things I really don't want it to index. I am using Logic Pro a lot and the last thing I want is the hard drive to be busy during recording.
I disabled Spotlight to see and, yes! the computer became faster. So I added a lot of folders in the privacy section, in Spotlight settings, but I am finding that it totally ignores some of them.
I do NOT want it to index /Library and /Users/me/Library; I added those, but they are still getting indexed.
I am thinking about pr

Bump. Any ideas?

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