Ultra slow indexing while connecting external drives

Hi, this is my first post.
I've some problems with Lion, under Snow Leopard it was all ok.
This is my setup:
i've 73 (yes 73) external hard drives each one containing tons and tons of files (textures, libraries, images, documents).
Under Snow Leopard, when i plugged one hard drive and searched for a file (example: .rar) in Spotlight, in few seconds i had the complete listing of the .rar files in that hard drive.
Now, if I plug that hard drive, i see some strange issues:
-it lists always some 1040 - 1060 .rar files even if i have 18567 .rar files on that drive. This happens in few seconds, then it starts indexing - always
-the scroll is VERY slow compared to the scroll in snow leopard, i mean it takes time to get to 10.000+ files option (snow leopard was faster)
-i've to index each new hard drive i connect to my macbook, and this is time wasting. In Snow Leopard i just connected new hard drives with files on them and in few seconds i had access to the whole list of .rar files.
Now, is this a known Spotlight bug?
This is the reason why i dual booted with SL, because when I have to search files on a new external HD it's faster for me to reboot the machine, enter SL, do a search, copy the file on the internal HD and then reboot in Lion. This is not good.
Any ideas?
Don't tell me to upgrade to 10.7.x please... that does not resolve this issue.
Thanks
ps: my internal HD is a Seagate Momentus XT 500gb 7200 with 4gb SSD fwSD25

I am having the same problem and I just heard back from an Apple Tec stating that the engineers purposly removed the ability to Spotlight External / Networked hard Drives with Lion OS.
WHAT THE H*LL WERE THEY THINKING. Why would the engineers take out the the ability to index External and Networked Drives?
Removing this feature slows me down to a crawl. I have 100's of files stored on USB Hard Drives at home and 1000's of files store on our company Network at work that I now have to look at line by line and folder by folder to find a file that I need.
What is the point of SpotLight if I can not find anything store on external drives?

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