If you're like me, you run a Windows Server 2003 box and have iTunes on there for your various iThing devices. It makes the most sense since that's where your music/videos/etc. are too. Well, with iTunes 8.2 Apple decided to screw us over and not let AppleMobileDeviceSupport run on our machines. Luckily, I found a nice clean hack
here on an Apple forum. Basically you download the
Win32 components of the Windows SDK and an
installer disassembler. You use the Windows SDK to remove the OS requirement check which allows the AppleMobileDeviceSupport installer to cleanly install and function normally.