ICloud and multiple mail accounts...

... is something of a mystery to me. I have 4 accounts added to the mail app on my iPhone 4 and the unified inbox is a real handy thing. Saves me time since I don't have to check the accounts individually. This is great. Or would've been if it wasn't for the fact that I nevertheless still have to check mails in at least a couple of places every time I recieve one. If I read the new mails in the inbox they get marked as 'Read' right? Well it turns out that they indeed are but they are still not read according to the iCloud inbox. I still have to check all the newly arrived mail there as well since otherwise they mail(s) still appears to be unread. The badge is still in place on the mail icon and in the mail app it still shows the so-called unread mails. Even if I've already read them in the unified inbox. So in other words, the iCloud service is instead of being that handy little thing, a rather annoying thing since it apparently can't keep up with what's read or not. So I wonder if there's something I don't grasp here, settings-wise or whatever it might be. Anyone else experiencing this trivial but nevertheless annoying problem? I see no point in having an unified inbox if I still have to read the same friggin' mails twice every single time.
Here's hoping for a nifty little solution to this. And without any trolling please. I'm interested in serious answers. If you can't contribute with a viable answer or suggestion then please refrain from posting a reply.

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Not sure where I should ask this question but how will I be able to keep choices in music, apps and pictures separate on each device? Right now, my wife has a separate iTuns account for her stuff I have a separate account for my stuff. She has an iPhone 4 and an iPad2 and I have an iMac and an iPhone 4. How do we keep things separate for our devices but still share music photos and apps? I want us to be able to pick from the same music, pictures and apps but I am not sure how to do that and I cant really find a good clear/simple answer. We do not have MobileMe accounts as were are rather new apple users.

I'd just sync stuff manually, so you can select what you each do and don't want on your respective devices. Apple invents all this whiz-bang-fantastic new stuff like iCloud that we're all supposed to love and use straight away to the exclusion of all else, but if they don't do what we want then what's the point of using them?
The old ways of syncing will still work just fine and - despite the fact that I don't want all the same things on both my iPhone and iPad - to be honest, I don't want all my music, photos and documents on one of Apple's servers somewhere anyway. That somehow feels like a real invasion of my privacy. So all the time I can continue to sync manually with a USB lead, I'll do so.
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My computer and Iphone had email accounts for Mac mail and Mobileme (I think they are duplicates when mac changed to me and I just left them).
Now with Icloud uploaded and configured for all my devices, it appears that both accounts are there but one appears never to be connected and they both quite often ask for my password in that pop up window. So my questions are.
1. Can I eliminate (delete) one from my Mac Laptops? Which one if the answer is yes.
2. On my Iphone: there is only an Icloud and Mac mail accounts (mobileme never came over). Should I keep both?
Any help and guidance would be greatly appreciated as its a bit confusing as to how it all ties together.
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iCloud uses your mac mail account. If you haven't already done so, here is the sequence to follow:
1. If you have a Mac, upgrade it to 10.7.2.
2. Upgrade any iDevices to 10.5
3. Go to iCloud.com and follow the process to transfer your mail account to iCloud.
It sounds like you've done most of that. The rejected password issue is due to the fact that iCloud is experiencing some intermittant growing pains problems. It kind of comes and goes. If you've managed to connect once, your solid. Just be a little patient as the iCloud mail service usually comes back fairly quickly.
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Reset your phone by holding the power and home buttons at the same time until you see the Apple logo, then release.
Restore your phone.
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