[whpalmer4]

ctawn, did you bother to read Ken's posts where he described how to set the behavior? It's all there. Just type in any 11 or 12 digit number that strikes your fancy and it won't bother you for years (except for your database getting larger and slower).

If you have clients you rarely run and don't care if it takes a bit longer for them to sync when they start, use the show clients display in the sync preferences on a machine you do use frequently and simply delete those rarely used clients. The client(s) you do use regularly will perform better, and the ones you don't use regularly will perform no worse.