SystemUIServer leaks memory, possibly related to spotlight

SystemUIServer leaks memory. Immediately after reboot it occupies about 8 to 9 MB (real) on my system. Climbing to more than 17MB after only 30 minutes. After 3 days, 20 hours of uptime total real memory consumption of the SystemUIServer process was 441MB. Upon researching the process I found this forum devoted to Spotlight and interaction with SystemUIServer. Testing, I found Spotlight was unresponsive, the tool would not pull down and it didn't respond to the keboard shortcut.
Killing SystemUIServer brings the process memory usage back down but it continues to climb as it runs. Spotlight became responsive.
System is fully patched and updated.
I also noticed after rebooting from update that iSync logs messages like the following in console.log:
2007-08-09 05:54:54.180 SyncServer[3857] A Sync Server is already running on this computer, exiting process.

I guess my question would be, does anyone know when Apple is going to fix either Spotlight or SystemUIServer so it doesn't leak/crash as seems to so common here in the discussion groups?
Probably need a bit more troubleshooting...
My uptime is now 3days 20 hours -odd coincidence.
SystemUIServer is using 10.96MB Real Mem.
So, I don't know if I would expect Apple to already believe that there is a problem needing to be fixed. Really, don't think anything in this forum can be considered "common." For a core function of the OS, the Spotlight forum is now one of the quietest of all the Tiger forums- only one that sees less action is UniversalAccess.
Anyway, I'm not sure why you're having a problem with memory leaks in SystemUIServer or with Spotlight, and I'm not enough of a developer to tell you how you could debug it. All I can say is that your situation is not the norm and that there is likely something specific to your situation that is causing it. The unresponsiveness of Spotlight may very well be a side effect of the memory leak which is being caused by something else on the menubar.

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