Why does Syncing an iPad have to be so painful?

Everytime I Sync my iPad with my Macbook Pro movies get copied which is odd since both files exist on both units. But with this one file in particular (Star Trek, the reboot) whatever data is transferred from my Macbook Pro to my iPad crashes my movies app on the iPad which means I can't watch my movie on the iPad. So I redownload the movie directly to my iPad again only to have it resync with my Macbook Pro and introduce the problem all over again.....thanks Apple.
My question is why is it doing that? The movie is already in the iPad why does it copy it and subsquently screw it all up again on the iPad? Even if I tell it not to actively resync it still copies the stupid file to the iPad and wrecks my iPad everytime I hit the playback button. To make matters worse, if I tell the Macbook Pro to simply not Sync movies at all with my iPad it goes on to delete all my movies from my iPad....thanks again Apple.
This is the most ridiculous process I have ever seen Apple implement and I have been a customer since the days of the Excaliburs when OS 7.5 was all the rage.
Needless to say I am not impressed and I am quite frustrated and tired of redownloading 4 gigs of video every time I want to watch it on my iPad....when my Macbook is not with me. ...
Anyone else run into this problem and is there a way around this?

Can you see your ipod in the System Profiler/usb-highspeed port when it is connected to your mac?
Is Apple Mobile Device Service installed and working? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1747
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