Thank you Sergey. The maintenance plan was indeed shrinking the DBs. I will stop that immediately. Thank you again.

>See if http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/Why-you-should-not-shrink-your-data-files.aspx is relevant to you problem
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>>I manage several production SQL servers, one with many SharePoint databases on it (about 200), and more are being migrated to this same server. Because of a continuing problem with fragmentation, I have a maintenance job that runs nightly that rebuilds the indexes on the user databases on the server. Even this has been unsuccessful and the level and number of fragmented indexes continues to climb.
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>>I have tried to implement the MS recommended method of SharePoint database de-fragmentation, but this had also not worked.
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>>REF: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943345
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>>If anyone has knowledge or can help with this, it would be greatly appreciated.