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Right now I'm again trying to cut out "suspicious" foods. It's so hard, because I'll stop eating one type of food thinking that I've solved the problem and then it starts again. I must admit I've not been disciplined enough to completely cut out trigger foods in the past but lately I'm attempting to be more strict with what I'm eating. I had kind of given up because nothing I tried seemed to help.

For the past few weeks (since I discovered Heather's diet) I've been trying to eat mostly soluble vegetables instead of lots of salads, broccoli, cauliflower, etc. and I'm not eating any cheese. I think it's a very interesting theory about not eating too much insoluble fiber. I've tried cutting out cows milk in the past, but that didn't make any difference.
With regard to cutting out one trigger at a time, you might take a look at this post about how hard it is to identify triggers when you're not stable.

I seem to be doing a little better on the soluble fiber diet but it's too soon to tell. A few weeks ago I started using the acacia fiber (1 tbsp. per day) and also some liquid acidophilus. One of the two caused me to really bloat up with gas, so I'm confused now which to cut out.
If you really mean one TABLESPOON of Acacia per day, that's a lot for a starting dose. Heather recommends starting at one teaspoon per day (1/2 tsp twice a day) and I was very cowardly and started at 1/4 teaspoon per day. If you started out at one Tablespoon per day, that could well be causing the gas - your body just couldn't adjust to that much SFS all at once.

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