I've written a ListActivity that has a custom list adapter. The list is being updated from a ContentProvider when onCreate is run. I also have a service that gets started when I run the app and it first updates the ContentProvider, then sends a Broadcast that the content has been updated.
My ListActivity recieves the broadcast and tries to update my ListView. My problem is, I'm getting intermittent errors about the ListView adapter data changing without the ListView being notified. I call the notifyDataSetChanged() method on my list adapter right after I update it. What it seems like is happening is the list is still in the process of being updated after first call in onCreate when it recieves the broadcast from the service to update, so it tries to update my ListView before it's finished updating from it's first run. Does this make sense? Here is some of my code.

NOTE: The service is working properly, it gets new data and updates my ContentProvider, and I do get the broadcast in my activity when it is updated.

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    ctx = this;
    getPrefs();
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    // Setup preference listener
    preferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
    preferences.registerOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(listener);


    // Setup report list adapter
    ListView nzbLv = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.report_list);
    nzbla = new NZBReportListAdaptor(ctx);
    getReports();
    nzbla.setListItems(report_list);            
    nzbLv.setAdapter(nzbla);        
    // Broadcast receiver to get notification from NZBService to update ReportList
    registerReceiver(receiver,
            new IntentFilter(NZBService.BROADCAST_ACTION));

    startService(new Intent(ctx, NZBService.class));

}

@Override
public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    timerHandler.resume();      
new updateSabQueue().execute();
    //updateList();
}

@Override
public void onPause() {
    super.onPause();
    timerHandler.pause();
    unregisterReceiver(receiver);
}


private BroadcastReceiver receiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        Toast.makeText(ctx, "NZBService broadcast recieved", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        updateReportList();
    }
};


private void updateReportList() {
    new updateReportList().execute();
}



private class updateReportList extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Boolean> {

    /* (non-Javadoc)
     * @see android.os.AsyncTask#onPreExecute()
     * Show progress dialog
     */
    protected void onPreExecute() {
    }

    /* (non-Javadoc)
     * @see android.os.AsyncTask#doInBackground(Params[])
     * Get new articles from the internet
     */
    protected Boolean doInBackground(Void...unused) {
        getReports();
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * On post execute.
     * Close the progress dialog
     */
    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Boolean updated) {
        if (updated) {
            Log.d(TAG, "NZB report list adapter updated");
            synchronized(this) {
                nzbla.setListItems(report_list);            
            }
            Log.d(TAG, "NZB report list notified of change");
            nzbla.notifyDataSetChanged();                           
        }
    }
}

Now that this question is answered, I will post my updated code in an effort to help others who might come across it.

@Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  ctx = this;
    getPrefs();
setContentView(R.layout.main);

    // Setup preference listener
    preferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
    preferences.registerOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(listener);

    // Setup report list adapter
    ListView nzbLv = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.report_list);
    nzbla = new NZBReportListAdaptor(ctx);
    report_list.addAll(getReports());
    nzbla.setListItems(report_list);            
    nzbLv.setAdapter(nzbla);        
    // Broadcast receiver to get notification from NZBService to update ReportList
    registerReceiver(receiver,
            new IntentFilter(NZBService.BROADCAST_ACTION));

    startService(new Intent(ctx, NZBService.class));

}

private class updateReportList extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, ArrayList<Report>> {

    /* (non-Javadoc)
     * @see android.os.AsyncTask#onPreExecute()
     * Show progress dialog
     */
    protected void onPreExecute() {
    }

    /* (non-Javadoc)
     * @see android.os.AsyncTask#doInBackground(Params[])
     * Get new articles from the internet
     */
    protected ArrayList<Report> doInBackground(Void...unused) {
        return getReports();
    }

    /**
     * On post execute.
     * Close the progress dialog
     */
    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(ArrayList<Report> updated) {
        nzbla.setListItems(updated);            
        nzbla.notifyDataSetChanged();                           
    }
}


private ArrayList<Report> getReports() {
    ArrayList<Report> reports = new ArrayList<Report>();
    ContentResolver r = getContentResolver();
    Cursor c = r.query(NZBReportProvider.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, NZBReportProvider.ARTICLE_KEY_ROWID + " DESC");
    startManagingCursor(c);
    Log.d(TAG, "NZBReport cursor.getCount=" + c.getCount());
    int title = c.getColumnIndex(NZBReportProvider.ARTICLE_KEY_TITLE);
    int desc = c.getColumnIndex(NZBReportProvider.ARTICLE_KEY_DESCRIPTION);
    int cat = c.getColumnIndex(NZBReportProvider.ARTICLE_KEY_CAT);
    int size = c.getColumnIndex(NZBReportProvider.ARTICLE_KEY_SIZE);
    int link = c.getColumnIndex(NZBReportProvider.ARTICLE_KEY_LINK);
    int catid = c.getColumnIndex(NZBReportProvider.ARTICLE_KEY_CATID);
    int date = c.getColumnIndex(NZBReportProvider.ARTICLE_KEY_DATE_ADDED);
    int group = c.getColumnIndex(NZBReportProvider.ARTICLE_KEY_GROUP);

    if (c.getCount() > 0) {
        c.moveToFirst();
        do {
            URL url = null;
            try {
                url = new URL(c.getString(link));
            } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            reports.add(new Report(c.getString(title), url, c.getString(desc), c.getString(cat), c.getString(date), c.getString(size), c.getInt(catid), c.getString(group)));               
        } while (c.moveToNext());                   
    }
    return reports;
}