SSD in an MBP 1,1

I installed an SSD in my 1,1 MBP to use as a knock-around machine.
After a clean install of Snow Leopard, starting it up and playing around, I realized that it was running extremely hot. I thought it had to do with Spotlight re-indexing the new drive.
I installed SMC fan control and ran the fans at full blast and put it on the back porch, hoping to keep it cool while it indexed. It never made it through the index, peaking at 240 degrees before shutting itself down.
I ended up shutting down drive indexing entirely via Terminal (turns out mdworker and mds were running 100%+). I ended up pulling the drive, but miss the speediness.
Any suggestions on what I can do to remedy this problem so I can put the drive back in and index it properly?

Well an expensive solution for a knock around machine.
Have you read about a SSD being a very different animal than a HDD?
If you insist in having a SSD, you can "accomodate" it's being different with some changes in the OS, with the help of Terminal. But be aware that after each update you have to do that again.
First: Stop Spotlight at all: use Onyx for that. Use another search App, like Easyfind or FindAnyFile (even better than Spotlight.
Second: set the SMS to off:
sudo pmset -a sms 0
Third: set the hibernatemode off:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
sudo rm /var/vm/sleepimage
Fourth: open SystemPreferences/Energy saver: slide the "computer sleep" to "never".
Fifth: do not run apps like DiskSpeedTest.
And I say nothing about setting the Trim command: a very sensitive thing to do (it changes a .kext file and that is very often disastrous).

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