Email name and user account pictures keep changing

My wife and I share contacts and calendars using my iCloud account. She syncs her notes and reminders using her iCloud account. This seems to work fine, but a problem has arisen that I suspect is related to this setup that I don't know how to resolve. When I send an email from my iCloud account it now has a from address of "my wife's name <[email protected]>" instead of "my name <[email protected]>". Also the account login picture for my Mac's user account has been replaced with hers. The latter I can reset (I don't know how to fix the former) but eventually the problem seems to recur.  I'm not sure if this is related but our contacts list identifies my address book card with the "this is me" tag.

#1 I am 99.5% sure (but only 99.5% if you aren't a gambling man) that when you delete a user's account using the accounts preferences all their stuff gets put into a "deleted users" folder in the users directory on the computer, so it is still all there until you trash that folder. Their account is gone but their files are still around.
#2 I don't actually have an "applications" folder in my account, there is just one at the main directory level, so I don't think each user necessarily has one by default. However, each user has a bunch of preferences so when I start an application it comes up with my preferences. Another user will have the application come up with their preferences. That's not to say I couldn't have an application in my account area, but I could in theory have an application tucked away in any folder or subfolder and not readily identifiable as such. Any applications not in the general applications folder usually won't be accessable to other users so unless you're logging as that old user you may not even know about applications there.

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