I just got one of the new G4 15" PowerBook with upgraded video memory
and hard drive speed. This is my first experience with the Titanium
series and so far I've been very impressed (and that 1.5gHz processor
with 512MB RAM really kicks butt over my old G3 (Pismo) PowerBook with
256MB RAM).

Anyway, enough bragging; one of the first things I noticed in speed of
this machine was the speed of the Help Viewer application. Last night
I installed, among other things, the Developer tools and now when I
open Help and type in a search I never really even get back a blank
screen and I've noticed that it's constantly using like 90% of my CPU
(I even saw 101% at one point too, so I think there's an issue with
Panther's Activity Monitory). I've let it run for like 10-15 minutes
and it doesn't get better (figured it might be indexing or something
like that).

Any ideas?

Also, I noticed a Hardware System Preference that showed up after
installing developer tools (the reason I initially headed into the
Help Viewer). Anyone have decent documentation/description on what
this System Preference is all about?