Address Book Sync and SyncServices

Anyone know what "Sync Services" are and why it keeps loading and running "Address Book Sync" and eating up 100% of my Intel CPU? What is this "syncing" with and why? Did my trial subscription to .Mac do this?

Thank you for the quick answer. This looks like something that is programmed into the iLife suite of applications (Address Book, iCal, etc...). I can't find anything on my machine (via Spotlight) that suggest an application that manages this or allows you to turn it off.
I think the reason for the high CPU utilization was my importing a 16,000 entry tab-delimited contact file into Address Book. I guess the Sync framework was busy distributing these new entries to all the other iWorks applications. It's quiet now, so I guess it launches itself when it sees the need to "sync-up" it's other member applications when data changes in one of them.
Thanks again for the help!

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