ITunes won't shut down - but only after syncing

I ran into an odd problem and found a workaround, so I thought I would post it here in case anyone else runs into this. In searching, I couldn't find anything like it:
The details: Running iTunes 7.5 on a freshly installed copy of XP. Have two iPods -- a Touch, and an iPod video.
The problem: If I open and close iTunes without connecting an iPod, everything is fine. However, if I connect either iPod and allow it to sync, iTunes will continue to run even after it's shut down. It starts hogging as much CPU time as it can get, which slows the system to a crawl -- and causes an error message when I try to restart the machine.
The solution: I found I could eliminate this problem if after syncing, I went into the Windows Task Manager and killed the "SyncServer.exe" process. So just for yuks, I found this file and moved it from its current location so that it would never load. I thought iTunes would balk at this, but it didn't -- both iPods still sync, and the above problem no longer occurs.
Surely there's got to be some penalty for killing this file, but I haven't run into any problems ... yet. Has anyone else been bit by this issue?
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