Syncing iPhone Apps through MobileMe via WiFi?

This may sound crazy but my iPhone appears to have synced apps through WiFi somehow yesterday.
I have not had my phone plugged into my computer for more than a week. Every night I plug it into the wall adapter to charge. Yesterday morning I did not use the phone for anything except to turn off alarms and check Twitter for a few minutes. In the afternoon I tried to use the phone only to see the battery was dead. (Weird in itself considering how little use it had that day).
I plugged the phone into the wall and came back that evening and started making some calls. Later that evening I noticed that there were no open App slots anymore. (Weird again because there had been open slots the day before.) Looking at the apps, I noticed that the ones filling the formerly empty slots were ones I had downloaded into iTunes a while back. (Weirder still that I did not use iTunes on the Mac yesterday.)
Yes, I know this sounds insane and if anyone else told me this happened to their phone I'd tell them they had simply forgotten plugging it into the computer to sync. However, I am the only person in the house, have not connected it to the computer, and lo and behold the battery dies and new apps are loaded. What other explanation is there, outside of the iPhone used MobileMe to sync apps and drained the battery?

Update apps would not have gone active from a simple tap as a) I still would have had to enter my iTunes password and b) it would not have put new apps on the phone.
I have a clue about part of this though. All the apps were purchased before the last backup to my computer. If you have more apps than spaces in the iPhone menus does it just place apps up to the magic number of slots or does it go ahead and load everything in there?
My phone did flake out yesterday evening and I had to power down and restart it. So I am thinking maybe those apps were on the phone outside the menu screens and when it powered back up it saw open slots and moved the apps in question into those slots.
As far as why the battery drained in during the day while not being used for anything, I may just jave to chalk that up to a quark for now.

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