Itunes 11 apps sync behaviour

I've upgraded to itunes11 on my mac and I'm now seeing some strange behaviour in the sync settings for apps. My phone is currently running and has 4.9GB available however when I try to sync I'm getting warnings that I need and additional 4.19GB despite the coloured bar at the bottom saying 4.72GB free.
In addition to this, there are a number of apps that are currenly installed that have a "remove" status next to them. If I click the remove button it changes to "will remove". Likewise there are some apps that I don't want on my phone that now can only be changed between install/will install.
Please can anyone explain what's going on???

I have a similar experience, very frustrating.
It seems like apps in the iTunes library that are not on your iPhone have an "install" tab. They are not supposed to be installed on the phone unless you click on the button to switch from "install" to "will install". The "remove/will remove" tabs are supposed to behave similarly. All apps on your phone have a "remove" tab in iTunes. If you want to remove them from the phone, click to switch the tab to "will remove".
That's all good in theory, but it doesn't really work well. The first time I synced my iPhone under iTunes11, I got lost of apps I didn't want, which never happened under iTunes10. (I keep everything I ever bought on my computer).
They thought they made it more explicit than iTunes 10, which only had check/uncheck boxes next to apps, but they actually (slightly) screwed up.

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You need to transfer your iTunes library from your PC to your Mac per the instructions included with this link along with all other important data from your PC that you will need or want to access on your Mac such as photos, documents, etc.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
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Welcome to the Support Communities!
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Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17725, time stamp: 0x4ec49b8f
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Report Id: 0eb3c37f-8537-11e2-9351-50465d6737de
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