1 iPhone, 2 iTunes accounts, and iCloud = Trouble!

My sister has an iPhone 4 with applications that have been purchased under two different iTunes accounts, hers and her husband's.
This was never a problem in the past as the computer she synced to is authorized under both accounts.
However, now that she's upgraded to iOS 5 and its iCloud, everything is broken. After a wired sync, all is fine. But then a short time later the phone talks to iCloud, and suddenly most of her apps (the ones bought under her husband's account) no longer work.
There doesn't seem to be any way to get iCloud to allow apps from multiple accounts. I've seen postings from people longing to be able to merge their multiple accounts, but my sister doesn't want to merge the two accounts. They need to keep them separate. Is there anything she can do?
It sure sounds like this whole iCloud thing was not well thought-out despite months and months of beta testing.
Personally, my iPhone is still on iOS 4 as I have apps from both the U.S. and Japan stores and it doesn't seem that I would be able to continue using all my apps under iOS 5 / iCloud.

You can only use one account on your device. Contact the iTunes Store and see if they can do something about it, but the official version is:
I have multiple Apple IDs. Is there a way for me to consolidate them into a single Apple ID?
At this time, Apple IDs cannot be consolidated.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/

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