Syncing taking hours.  Help

Hi There
Every time I try and sync my iphone 4 it seems to be taking hours. After a while I just stop as I have to use my phone. It backs up fine, it seems to stall on the 'Syncing calendars with iphone" bit
Is this usual? Didn't take this long when I had iphone 3.
Why is it happening?
How can I overcome this issue?
So far I have tried:
- Restoring iphone and using backup of my old phone. Same issue persists- though it never happened before.
- Tried replacing calendar, notes and contacts from my computer onto my phone - same issue persists
- Tried new cables
- Reporting it in other forums - no answers help
Can anyone help! This is really stomping me
Thanks

it's gotta be this buggy 9.2 release. Adding a simple 8 song album to a playlist in iTunes is taking approximately 20-30 minutes now.

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