[otter]

This isn't occuring with on the iphone, it's occuring with OF 1.1 running on my laptop (any time it's out of wireless range).

Yes, you can turn off synching on the laptop, but it's definitely still a pain and makes it highly likely that it won't get turned back on due to forgetfulness, therefore undermining the sense of the trusted-ness of the system. All and all, it's true this would be less annoying than closing a dialog box every 60 seconds, but it's still a very sub-optimal solution. (Even more so if you have to re-configure the server each time as ucs308 is suggesting.)