Best practices for account administration in ad agencies

What's the best method for Ad Agencies to set up and manage accounts (email addressees) and assign roles when planning to publish multiple folio apps for multiple clients?
We must of read this page over a dozen times: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/digitalpubsuite/using/WS9293e1fb3b977c5c-6c5b4101331de1fd6a-80 00.html, but we're unsure of our adaptations to it.  And from an IT perspective this can quickly turn into a nightmare if not properly thought out.  Any direction and insight is welcome. 
Here's just one example of how we envision the roles playing out when a team of designers, admins, and project managers publish one or more single and/or multi-folio apps:
Application accounts:
- [email protected],
- [email protected],
- [email protected],
DPS App Builder account:
- [email protected],
or...
- [email protected]
Administrator account:
- [email protected],
or...
- [email protected]
Delegate account with no role:
- [email protected]

Thanks! Your feedback is really helpful.   One thing I'm still throwing around is the naming convention for the Adobe IDs. 
The examples shown make sense for a publication, are very simple and topic focused. Example: [email protected], [email protected]
However, what we're trying to maintain is the following: Example: [email protected]
dps = dps project
client01 = client name
winter = topic
jobnumber = location of files
Are we overthinking the naming structure?  We see asset management as an issue.  I should point out too, that we have CS5/Professional Subscription and do plan on upgrading to Enterprise in the future and would like to set up a system now that works for both and will provide a close to seamless transition.  (a lot of ANDS in that sentence, our we crazy or just too demanding or both?)

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