Why does it index everytime I plug the Extrnl HDD ??

Hi~
I installed all the latest updates of Apple....
and i noticed today that each time i plug in the external LaCie tripple interface 250G drive, spotlight start indexing....
I have two partitions on this ext hdd, i named Disc A and Disc B....
and only the first one is index each time i connect to my PowerBook...
any ideas?
would it be the latest iTunes causing it?
or the latest security update?
please help me...
besides, i won't get any results at all when searching via spotlight... so i cannot find anything...
thanks for ur help..
ps: i ran permission repair, i didnt have the ext hdd plugged when updating...

hi,
thanks for the quick answer...
It still says "indexing 8 minutes remaining..."
but the thing is that... each time i re-mount or eject and plug it in again.... Spotlight starts indexing again... and once the indexing is done, spotlight does not find any files (in this case mp3's and m4a's)....
so Before the indexing is done, (while indexing) it would display all the results.. 2187 files/songs under " .m4a "
but After the indexing, it won't display any results at all.. all the 2187 songs are 'invisible'....
any ideas?

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