Slow Sync for Contacts, Calendar, Notes, Bookmarks but Backup is quick!

My Itunes/Iphone4 takes 18 minutes to sync just the Contacts, Calender, Bookmarks, and Notes, derived from Win XP SP3 and Outlook 2007. I don't have a large amount of Data in the them. The "Backup" process runs quickly as does the copying process when I add media. I have compacted the outlook.pst file to about 130Mb in size. I have erased the Content off of the Iphone and re-loaded it, to no resolve. Also it may be worthy to note that the PC I attempting to do this on, was recently formatted and a clean re-install of the OS and software was just done a week prior to this problem arising.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem, or have any solutions that I can try?

I just noticed that if I switch Itunes to the Mini-player, the sync will only take about 2 minutes. I just wish Apple would get these type of bugs out of Itunes.

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