Spotlight says it's indexing "Leopard" 24/7 but it's not

Looks like Apple removed the search function on these boards?
Anyway...
As the subject says, Spotlight displays that it's indexing Leopard 24/7 as the progress bar just continues to...well...progress. But it's not as there is no extra disk activity. I tried trashing preferences and running Repair permissions but no luck.
Anyone have any insight to this?!
Mac Pro Quad 10.5.2
Many Thanks,
John V.
Message was edited by: John Vitollo
Message was edited by: John Vitollo

Well...i have 250 gigs of stuff to be indexed because i did a time machine system restore day ago.
I hava tried many things.
Deleded the /.Spotlight-V100 directories from every parttion, then rebooted or issued "mdutil -E /" ..
also checked the "mdutil -i on /"
This is strange, it seems it does start the indexing and it did finish fine on the smaller external partittion but seems to take ages on the main disk. Maybe i have too much stuff and i need to just keep it on for a day or so LOL. I dont think its a corrupted file because i just managed to reset and start it again, and this time it did go further.
Of course i have verified disk and permissions.
I have tons of HD video, and lot of .pdf files, so maybe its "normal". I Will now keep it indexing even thou it seems to stay idling a lot without noticable cpu / disk activity. I will report back later

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