ITunes optimizing 6000+ photos every sync

I'm running the current version of iTunes (although it happened under the previous version as well) on Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit edition, and each and every time I sync, iTunes wants to re-optimize and re-sync every one of my 6000+ photos.
Two iPhones get sync'ed with this machine, and both of them see this behavior, so I believe it's an iTunes issue.
Deleting the photo cache seems to fix the issue if I do a second sync immediately after the first re-optimization sweep, but it will still revert to this behaviour if I sync again the next day.
It seems like something is touching my photos, making iTunes believe that they're updated somehow, but I do not have any additional software installed that would do this beyond everything included with Vista Ultimate.
I'm a software developer by trade, so I've tried a lot of the obvious stuff.
This has only been a problem under Vista (which I really just thought I'd give a try) but I may need to go back to XP if there's no solution.
EDIT: I should add, that I'm not interested in the option I've seen for other people experiencing similar problems; Disabling photo sync until I have something new to upload. I take far too many photos to frequently for this to be an option.
Please help!
Message was edited by: Murchie

Thanks for the response.
Unforunately, I've both reset & restored from scratch. In fact my wife's iPhone turned out to be defecive (Hardware defect) so I had the chance to start from scratch with another brand new iPhone.
I'm really begining to think that Vista is 'touching' my files in some way, causing them to appear updated to iTunes. I can't see any evidence of this in terms of create/modify date, but I've noticed that if I sit through the whole conversion process, it won't do it again that day, but as soon as the next day iTunes will want me to re-optimize.
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