Spotlight won't index iPhoto 7 files

It seems spotlight won't index the iPhoto Library for iPhoto 7 (iLife '08) automatically.
I manually issued the following command in Terminal and it worked. But will it work automatically when I add more pics?
mdimport -f "/Users/ibrian/Pictures/iPhoto Library"

Step one to ascertain whether the .Spotlight-V100 folder exists.
$ ls -al / | grep .Spotlight-V100
If so, then remove it, and restart:
$ sudo rm -R /.Spotlight-V100
That should restart indexing. If not, then try the mdutil commands again.
If that doesn't do the trick, create a new admin user account, log into it, and try there.

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    #######:~ Nicolas$ mdimport -d1 Pictures/
    2007-12-19 22:54:23.098 mdimport[705:10b] Imported '/Users/Nicolas/Pictures' of type 'public.folder' with no plugIn.
    2007-12-19 22:54:23.108 mdimport[705:10b] Imported '/Users/Nicolas/Pictures/iPhoto Library' of type 'dyn.ah62d4qmuhk3d44nurvva' with no plugIn.
    #######:~ Nicolas$ mdimport -d1 Pictures/iPhoto\ Library/AlbumData.xml
    2007-12-19 22:54:34.190 mdimport[706:10b] Imported '/Users/Nicolas/Pictures/iPhoto Library/AlbumData.xml' of type 'public.xml' with plugIn /System/Library/Spotlight/RichText.mdimporter.
    #######:~ Nicolas$ mdimport -d1 Pictures/
    2007-12-19 23:02:11.798 mdimport[710:10b] Imported '/Users/Nicolas/Pictures' of type 'public.folder' with no plugIn.
    2007-12-19 23:02:11.807 mdimport[710:10b] Imported '/Users/Nicolas/Pictures/iPhoto Library' of type 'dyn.ah62d4qmuhk3d44nurvva' with no plugIn.
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    (Info) ImportPluginLoading: loading sniffer '/System/Library/Spotlight/Image.mdimporter/' for type public.png
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    (Info) ImportPluginLoading: loading sniffer '/System/Library/Spotlight/Image.mdimporter/' for type public.tiff
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    (Info) ImportPluginLoading: loading sniffer '/System/Library/Spotlight/iPhoto.mdimporter/' for type com.apple.iphoto.ipspot
    (Info) ImportPluginLoading: loading sniffer '/System/Library/Spotlight/Mail.mdimporter/' for type com.apple.mail.emlx
    (Info) ImportPluginLoading: loading sniffer '/System/Library/Spotlight/Mail.mdimporter/' for type com.apple.mail.emlx.part
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    (Info) ImportPluginLoading: loading sniffer '/System/Library/Spotlight/QuickTime.mdimporter/' for type com.apple.quicktime-movie
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    (Info) ImportPluginLoading: loading sniffer '/System/Library/Spotlight/QuickTime.mdimporter/' for type com.apple.protected-mpeg-4-audio
    (Info) ImportPluginLoading: loading sniffer '/System/Library/Spotlight/QuickTime.mdimporter/' for type com.apple.protected-mpeg-4-video
    (Info) ImportPluginLoading: loading sniffer '/System/Library/Spotlight/QuickTime.mdimporter/' for type public.mpeg-4-audio
    (Info) ImportPluginLoading: loading sniffer '/System/Library/Spotlight/QuickTime.mdimporter/' for type public.3gpp
    (Info) ImportPluginLoading: loading sniffer '/System/Library/Spotlight/QuickTime.mdimporter/' for type public.3gpp2
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    2007-12-19 23:02:17.511 mdimport[711:10b] Imported '/Users/Nicolas/Pictures' of type 'public.folder' with no plugIn.
    2007-12-19 23:02:17.529 mdimport[711:10b] Attributes: {
    "_kMDItemFinderLabel" = <null>;
    "comapple_metadatamodtime" = 218820564;
    kMDItemAlternateNames = (
    Pictures
    kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2007-11-15 15:56:44 +0100;
    kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2007-12-08 16:29:24 +0100;
    kMDItemContentType = "public.folder";
    kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
    "public.folder",
    "public.directory",
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