Turn off App Syncing without losing applications...?

Hi All,
I'm having some issues with syncing and whatnot in iTunes. Basically, I want to turn App Syncing off. However, I currently have 90+ applications and now it is warning me that if I stop syncing it will remove all 90 applications. So, I have 2 questions:
1) Why does it feel the need to do this?
2) Why can't it just stop tracking it rather than delete existing items?
Best.

Several reasons really:
1) I just got the iPhone and I'm constantly swapping apps so the application syncs are more time consuming than useful.
2) From a software purist's standpoint, unchecking "Sync Apps" means just that -- stop syncing. It doesn't mean delete everything one last time then stop syncing.
Again, I'm not disputing what happens. It's obviously happening. I'm sure there is some reason they do this -- perhaps for "legit" business reasons, perhaps for hackers. In either case, it's annoying. I simply want the option to quit tracking without affecting my apps. Surely there is some plist somewhere that can be edited. I'll continue looking, but if anyone has any helpful input, I'm all ears.
Best.

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