Well, it finished adding all the index entries while I slept, don't know what the final count was but it was over 200k. Oddly enough, even after all that those friggin updates still won't install or go away, but maybe with these fixes having been done, one of the previous solutions tried will actually work.

As for reinstalling Windows, or upgrading to a newer version....frankly I just don't feel like spending the money on a newer version, never set up the re-install disk for Windows Vista, or even registered as far as I can remember.

~Morningfrost