ICloud integration causes Outlook to hang when switching to Calendar for a LONG TIME?

I've been working on integrating iCloud (contacts and calendar) into outlook (tried 2007 & 2010).  With 3 kids I have to integrate our home and work calendars if we expect to have any chance of remembering anything.
I thought I had found a solution, using the basic windows iCloud control panel and then using a free piece of software from CodeTwo - http://www.codetwo.com/sync-for-icloud/ - which essentially just keeps any of your outlook folders (contacts, calendar, etc) in sync with one of the iCloud generated folders.  One way either direction or Two way.
This all worked just fine... except...through process of elimination I found that once the iCloud control panel has generated it's iCloud 'pst' and Outlook is opening it; that Outlook takes an excruciatingly long time (minutes) to switch into the Calendar.  I don't see this behavior when switching to Contacts or back to Mail.  This persists even if I turn syncing for anything outlook related off at the iCloud control panel, presumably because the iCloud folders are still present in outlook.  It isn't until I remove them, that things go back to normal.
Curiously, I'm doing this on two different pc's.  One has normal Outlook (local files) and all works fine, while the other has an Exchange Server account, it's the one that's hanging.
windows 7 64bit
outlook 2007 & 2010 (with an exchange account)
iCloud control panel 1.1 (64 bit)

Yes, I do have all the latest updates.  I even ran a test where I exported all my appointments out of my calendar, then deleted them off the exchange server.  This still didn't help.
I was able to get a coworker to run the control panel on his work PC, and he did not see the problem.
Then, I added the exchange account to my home PC on Office 2007 (our exchange server can do this through the outlook web access server) and then the problem showed up there as well.
All I can figure is that there must be some key difference between my outlook account and his, although I can't imagine what that might be.  I'm not inclined to push our IT dept to investigate, it's just not worth the pain of trying to explain the problem to them, just to be told 'we don't support apple products'... i know, i know... just please check this for me.... anyway, not worth it.
I've since rolled everything back into a central gmail account (contacts, calendar) and am using that as the 'cloud' to keep things sync'd.  I'm using a relatively cheap piece of software called 'gsyncit' (http://www.fieldstonsoftware.com/software/gsyncit3/index.shtml) and it seems to be doing the job quite well.  In reality, this is no less integrated than iCloud since that required an extra service to keep things sync'd as well.
It's highly configurable, so i feel like I have much more control over what sync's to what.. no complaints so far.
thanks for the suggestions and attempts to help!

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