com.ibm.team.repository.client.util.ThreadCheck checkLongOps

I'm really stuck on this issue ... I've investigated the forums, and the closest thing to what I'm doing and what others have encountered is this:

http://jazz.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4718&highlight=checklongopsallowed

My application is a simple swing application, and all I'm doing is setting the workflow action and saving the workitem working copy. If I update timeSpent at the same time, the stack trace doesn't show up ... its only when I update *only* the workflow action. My original code was running in a completely separate Thread, and I've also tried moving the code to a class that extends org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs.Job. I don't understand whats happening. Can't I just tell the workitem guy to not notify/update the cache on the save, since that appears to be the source of the issue according to the stack:

Dec 3, 2009 6:50:36 PM com.ibm.team.repository.client.util.ThreadCheck checkLongOpsAllowed
SEVERE: Long-running operations prohibited on this thread
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Long-running operations prohibited on this thread
at com.ibm.team.repository.client.util.ThreadCheck.checkLongOpsAllowed(ThreadCheck.java:117)
at com.ibm.team.repository.client.internal.ServiceInterfaceProxy.invoke(ServiceInterfaceProxy.java:81)
at $Proxy1.queryItemsInContext(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.AuditableCommon$1.run(AuditableCommon.java:90)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.AuditableCommon$1.run(AuditableCommon.java:1)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.client.internal.ClientServiceContext$1.run(ClientServiceContext.java:41)
at com.ibm.team.repository.client.internal.TeamRepository$3.run(TeamRepository.java:1169)
at com.ibm.team.repository.common.transport.CancelableCaller.call(CancelableCaller.java:79)
at com.ibm.team.repository.client.internal.TeamRepository.callCancelableService(TeamRepository.java:1162)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.client.internal.ClientServiceContext.callCancelableService(ClientServiceContext.java:45)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.AuditableCommon.queryItemsInContext(AuditableCommon.java:93)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.util.ItemQueryIterator.update(ItemQueryIterator.java:78)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.util.ItemQueryIterator.hasNext(ItemQueryIterator.java:58)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.util.QueryIterator.toList(QueryIterator.java:26)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.AttributeCache.updateCache(AttributeCache.java:68)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.util.CacheHelper.internalCheckCache(CacheHelper.java:107)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.util.CacheHelper.checkCache(CacheHelper.java:64)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.util.CacheHelper.checkCache(CacheHelper.java:55)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.AttributeCache.findAttributes(AttributeCache.java:58)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.AttributeCache.findAttribute(AttributeCache.java:40)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.WorkItemCommon.findAttribute(WorkItemCommon.java:306)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.client.internal.WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry$InternalListener.featureChanged(WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.util.EMFListener.notifyChanged(EMFListener.java:36)
at org.eclipse.emf.common.notify.impl.BasicNotifierImpl.eNotify(BasicNotifierImpl.java:247)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.model.impl.WorkItemImpl.setInternalState(WorkItemImpl.java:1001)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.model.impl.WorkItemImpl.eSet(WorkItemImpl.java:2380)
at org.eclipse.emf.ecore.impl.BasicEObjectImpl.eSet(BasicEObjectImpl.java:1071)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.util.EMFHelper.merge(EMFHelper.java:117)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.common.internal.util.EMFHelper.merge(EMFHelper.java:70)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.client.internal.WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry.remoteUpdate(WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry.java:870)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.client.internal.WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry.access$14(WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry.java:846)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.client.internal.WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry$8.run(WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry.java:1781)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.client.internal.WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry$8.run(WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry.java:1)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.client.internal.WorkItemWorkingCopyImpl$1.run(WorkItemWorkingCopyImpl.java:421)
at com.ibm.team.repository.client.util.ThreadCheck.runProhibitingLongOps(ThreadCheck.java:173)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.client.internal.WorkItemWorkingCopyImpl.run(WorkItemWorkingCopyImpl.java:415)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.client.internal.WorkItemWorkingCopyImpl.write(WorkItemWorkingCopyImpl.java:410)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.client.internal.WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry.saveWorkItems(WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry.java:1779)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.client.internal.WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry.saveAffected(WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry.java:1658)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.client.internal.WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry.save(WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry.java:1559)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.client.internal.WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry.save(WorkItemWorkingCopyRegistry.java:1530)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.client.internal.WorkItemWorkingCopyManager.save(WorkItemWorkingCopyManager.java:115)
at com.ibm.team.workitem.client.internal.WorkItemWorkingCopyImpl.save(WorkItemWorkingCopyImpl.java:228)
at com.ibm.mmthis.gui.rtc.RTC.updateWorkItemsById(RTC.java:924)
at com.ibm.mmthis.gui.threads.RTCUpdateJob.run(RTCUpdateJob.java:125)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)

Any help/direction is of course greatly appreciated, since this one is driving me crazy.

Thanks!

Aaron