'Detached' task processing

[Michael Pokraka]

Hi all, 
I think the answer is a 'no go' but... I would like to execute a task and have
the workflow continue before the task is complete. 

The simple answer - raise a custom event & trigger the task seperately. Can be
done, except there are a few different tasks with lots of container info (HR)
and it's going to get a bit messy. Just wondering if there is another way or
interesting design ideas to kick off a bunch of flows/task and pass over lots
of container stuff and have the calling flow continue. (In other words an
asynchronous start).

For what it's worth - these are a bunch of notifications that should by all
rights be sent as emails (which means the flow would resume/complete once
sent), but have to be workitems instead. 

Cheers
Mike