Duplicating user accounts

Hi all,
Hope someone can help. I am in the process of want to upgrade to OS Lion to obtain the full services of iCloud before my mobile me account expires. My wife and I currently use the same user account on our iMac, I have had no need to set up additional user accounts (one each). Both of us have iPhones, and share an iPad, which we sync'd with the iMac with the one mobileme account. From what I am reading, once I migrate over to iCloud we won't be able to share the one iCloud account(??) but to have 2 iCloud accounts I will need to set up two user accounts one the shared iMac. If this is what I should do, I want both user accounts to mirror one another and update each other accordingly when logged into one of the accounts. I want both accounts to have access to the same iTunes library, documents iphoto library and when anything is added to one under one login it will automatically add it to the other account.... Is this possible, and what is the most simplistic way of doing it?
It would be great if we can just share the one iCloud account.....
I apologise if I have placed this posting in the wrong community, if anyone could point me in the right direction that would be great.
Thanks in advance
Alan

You might want to ask if there is a way to share the iCloud account over in the iCloud list. That definitely would be the easiest solution if it is possible.
Sharing iTunes and iPhoto would be doable by putting the libraries in the Shared folder under Users but having the acocunts 'mirror' each ohter would be difficult at best.
regards

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Now you're deleting a folder named "Toolbars". You may be prompted for your login password. Next, copy this line:
/Library
Select Go to Folder… again and paste. Don't delete the Library folder. Delete only the following items inside it, if they exist.
Application Support/Conduit
InputManagers/CTLoader
LaunchAgents/com.conduit.loader.agent.plist
ScriptingAdditions/ct_scripting.osax
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