Spotlight opening slow

Spotlight is very laggy lately. I am not having any problems with indexing, but whenever I press command space there is usually a 2 second delay before the actual search bar pops up. This is extremely annoying when I use spotlight for everything. So how do I reset it or fix the lag? I have already rebooted my computer plenty of times, it works for a few minutes and then always lags again later. I have also already tried re-indexing my entire hard drive. Nothing works. Any suggestions?
Thanks

Update to the last version of Lion.
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