2 iPhones, 2 Yahoo address books - Can I do this?

My wife and I each have an iPhone (mine a 3G, hers a brand new 4). We also both have Yahoo email and contact accounts. I can't figure out how to tell iTunes to use one Yahoo Contact account for her iPhone and a different Yahoo Contact account for mine. As soon as I set one phone up for the right Yahoo account, iTunes makes that account the default for both phones. Sort of an issue, since neither of us wants all of the others' contacts.
The iPhones have different names, and iTunes seems to be syncing other different items (apps, music, etc) correctly. Am I missing something here?

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