I'm sort of new to any sort of multithreading and simply can't seem to get a simple search method working on a background thread properly. Everything seems to be in order with an NSAutoreleasePool and the UI being updated on the main thread. The app doesn't crash and does perform a search in the background but the search results yield the several of the same items several times depending on how fast I type it in. The search works properly without the multithreading (which is commented out), but is very slow because of the large amounts of data I am working with. Here's the code:

    - (void)filterContentForSearchText:(NSString*)searchText { 
isSearching = YES;
 NSAutoreleasePool *apool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];

 /*
  Update the filtered array based on the search text and scope.
  */

 //[self.filteredListContent removeAllObjects]; // First clear the filtered array.


 for (Entry *entry in appDelegate.entries)
 {
   NSComparisonResult result = [entry.gurmukhiEntry compare:searchText options:(NSCaseInsensitiveSearch|NSDiacriticInsensitiveSearch) range:NSMakeRange(0, [searchText length])];
   if (result == NSOrderedSame)
   {
    [self.filteredListContent addObject:entry];
   }
 }

 [self.searchDisplayController.searchResultsTableView performSelectorOnMainThread:(@selector(reloadData)) withObject:nil waitUntilDone:NO];
 //[self.searchDisplayController.searchResultsTableView reloadData];

 [apool drain];
 isSearching = NO; }

- (BOOL)searchDisplayController:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller shouldReloadTableForSearchString:(NSString *)searchString {
     if (!isSearching) {
      [self.filteredListContent removeAllObjects]; // First clear the filtered array.
      [self performSelectorInBackground:(@selector(filterContentForSearchText:)) withObject:searchString];
     }
     //[self filterContentForSearchText:searchString];

        return NO;      // Return YES to cause the search result table view to be reloaded.  }