How do I sync multiple iPhones to different Macs and still share calendars?

In my household, we have 4 macs, 2 iPhones and 2 iPods (Touch). We also have a Family MobileMe account. What I would like to do is sync some services to ALL the macs and devices and some services to the mac and device of ONLY THAT USER. The set up would be this:
ALL (all the macs and devices would share these services)
Contacts
Calendars
USER based (1 mac syncs to one device ONLY these services)
Bookmarks
Dashboard Widgets
Dock Items
Keychains
Mail Accounts
Mail Rules
Signatures
Smart Mailboxes
Notes & Preferences
My goal is to be able to add an event to my calendar and have it appear in ALL of my family's calendars (same with contacts) via the "cloud." However, I do not want my bookmarks appearing on my son's computer or my wife's mail appearing on my iPhone, etc.
If anyone, knows how to set this up, I would greatly appreciate the help.
Thank you.

Sync them to the same iTunes library and select to sync to the same Calendar on the Info tab in your iTunes sync settings. Or, sync them to the same iCloud account and turn on Calendar syncing in Settings>iCloud.

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