Activating multiple iPhones with one or many Apple IDs?

I'm wondering whether its possible to activate an iPhone with an iTunes Store account that is not the one the phone will be used with. I'm centrally activating a dozen iPhones and loading a configuration profile onto them but I need to know if I'll need to take the staffs Apple ID's off them in order to do that?
Equally they're all going to be on a company plan but I don't want them to be able to sync their phones and have access to the same account that was used to pay for the contract, otherwise they could go nuts on the company card! (I know there are some safeguards but it only takes one to read the password upside-down off the bosses desk and then...)
Is it possible to complete an activation without logging into an iTunes Store account and if not then how do you avoid either:
a) getting all the staff's personal information (and that is not something I would give out to anyone, they could post a silly question!)
b) giving the staff access to a single company account. I don't even know whether its allowed to activate a dozen phones on one Apple ID
I have an iPhone myself but I can't remember at what point I had to put in my information and the videos and tutorials I've seen either don't specify or are completely useless (the O2 one is my personal favourite http://shop.o2.co.uk/FAQ?category=iPhone&question=FAQHOW_DO_I_ACTIVATE_MYIPHONE given that you could re-write that whole page as just, "use iTunes")
Also, am I missing something basic, I thought this would at least be in the Enterprise activation guide as I'm sure I can't be the first one to ask this question?
Any help/thoughts appreciated

Ah excellent, so I can activate the phones on the company account and hand them over to each member of staff to sync with their own iTunes accounts. So I'll also be able to get the free apps on the company account and then give them over to the staff to sync with their own iTunes accounts. It means I'll have to update them manually but that's manageable at this scale.
Does anyone know if the ability to pre-load non-commercial apps is going to be a feature of the configuration utility at any point? Or at least have a post installation script which uses their account to download the apps (with appropriate dialogues requesting permission or whatever) so that you can ensure app deployment without knowing their Apple ID's?
Must remember to delete that initial text message too, if there is still one, as that'll have the account login details!
I've already got the iPhone Configuration Utility configured to set them up with Passcodes but I've not applied any restrictions, parental control wise. After all there's no point in having the iPhone if you can't have fun with all the features.
A second question but related, if you take the iPhone backup file and save it on another machine (having swapped it out for one that may already have been there) and then plug the phone in, will it sync? Does it still work if the phone backup is encrypted?
I'm thinking of backup solutions and the inevitable hardware failure that'll take the iPhone backup with it. I'll probably be trying to ChronoSync or RSync the User/Home/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup folder to a server location where it'll be rolled into our regular backup procedure but will I be able to restore that backup to another machine, the .../MobileSync/ folder and get the iPhone to work again? How have others handled this?

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