Resource forks being created for every file

[crimsonapple]

recently i noticed that every file on my system now has a resource fork and one is create for every new file as well. i never had this odd behavior before and haven't turned up anything by searching google. The only thing i can think of is that i turned of spotlight indexing by doing updating /etc/hostconfig
to turn it off and doing so:

sudo mdutil -i off
sudo mdutil -E /

now when i try to do:

sudo mdutil -s /

i get the error

/:
        Error: Could not get indexing status for volume.

am i on the right track? is this related to indexing?

Update: i saw elsewhere a supposed way to remove resource forks by doing so

find / -type f -exec cat /dev/null > {}/rsrc \;

and it was claimed that a zero size resource fork is removed. but every file on my system has a zero-size resource fork and zero'ing out a zero length file doesn't accomplish much.