ITunes 9.1 not auto opening when iPhone connected

Prior to upgrading to iTunes 9.1, iTunes used to open automatically when I connected my iPhone to my Windows XP SP3 PC via USB. This was useful for simply plugging in my phone and walking away and having it done backing up and syncing when I came back.
Now it's not opening iTunes automatically, at least not unless I killed the iTunesHelper.exe task and restart it. The iTunesHelper.exe task is supposed to start iTunes.exe when the iPhone is connected, but it appears that iTunesHelper.exe simply stops working periodically and I need to kill it and restart it to get it to recognize when I connect the iPhone.
Anyone else notice this problem?

No one else sees this?
I think it has to do with Hibernating my laptop since the problem seems to start happening after I do that. It works fine if I go into Standby and resume, but I hibernate my machine every night and the next day I have to kill iTunesHelper.exe and restart it to get iTunes to automatically launch.

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