ITunes Freezes when Syncing on Windows 7 SP1

iTunes seems to freeze imediatly when plugging in my iPhone 4, and will unfreeze soon as I unplug it. This started happening soon as I upgraded to SP1 on Windows 7.
There seem to be many many threads on this and most eventually come to the conclusion that iTunes is not fully compatible with Windows 7 SP1. Calling tech support just told me that it wasnt a known issue.
Ive tested this on 2 seperate systems with 2 seperate fresh installs of Windows 7.
With a Fresh install of Windows 7 and iTunes, synching works.
Install SP1, synching still works for the most part
Install any of these AV's: Microsoft Security Essentials, Nod32 (v4 or 5) or Kaspersky and Syncing is broken. (Trend Micro Titanium worked)
If you uninstall SP1 everything works fine, and compatibility mode fixes it for the most part too. Too many top AV's including Microsofts own are effected by this that it is not a conflict/fault on their part. Some people dont seem to need the AV part of the equation to run into this issue.
Many other reports are listed in the following thread and ones in the "More Like This" section to the right of it. Other AV's causing conflicts since SP1 are listed too.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2762816?start=0&tstart=0
The Freezing apon connection of an iPhone (then unfreezing iTunes soon as its removed) has been something that would happen to me very rarley (like once a month, if that) since my 3gs, but now it happens every time. It seems SP1 adgitated that already existing bug in iTunes.
Anyone using Windows 7 SP1 and iTunes with an iPhone or iPod Touch with or without issue? (Standard iPods seem to not be effected) What AV (if any) are you using?

Have you tried iTunes 10.4.1.10? That seems to have fixed it for me when nothing else did. (Of course, I can't be sure that was what fixed it. I just noticed that one day the problem had gone away when nothing else worked, and it seemed to coincide with the upgrade to 10.4.1.)
And it is too a known issue. Sigh. I worked with support on this over the course of a couple of months, sent them logs, spent hours on the phone, etc. I know the engineers knew about it. Whether they ever figured out the cause is another matter.

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