IMessage: Sender/Receiver 'Bubbles' Don't Alternate - All Blue in String

My wife and I have an iPhone 4 and an iPad 2 (Wi-Fi only) between the two of us. Both devices have iOS 5.0 or better and both are using the same Apple ID and iTunes account. Here's the problem: When I iMessage the iPhone from the iPad (or vice versa), my message displays as a blue bubble, on the right side, ON THE iPHONE I just sent to. If she replies to that iMessage, it shows up as a blue bubble on the right side on the iPad. In other words, our iMessage conversations all appear one-sided. There are no grey bubbles. It's just a string of blue bubbles along the right side.
However, to complicate this anomaly further, every once in a while one of our replies shows up as a grey 'reply' bubble. But then the very next reply ends up on the blue bubble side.
The conversation displays identically on both devices. The irriating thing about this anamoly, is the incoming message alarm doesn't sound because the device sees it as coming from itself.
Any ideas?

Regarding the grey bubble, who knows. You're using the iMessage app in a way it was not intended, so I can't comment on why it behaves like it does.
As far as the algorithm is concerned, the two devices are "owned" by the same person. Say you have the iPad and Wifey has the iPhone and the wife tries to send a text to the iPad. Apple ID doesn't care. All it sees is a user trying to send a text to himself.
The reason you can use the same ID with two different devices is to keep the messages synced. In my case, for example, I have an iPhone and an iPad. When I respond to an iMessage message from another user, that response is synced to both devices. It lets me pick up either device and keep the conversation going.
As I said before, if you want to have the messages display properly between the two devices, you need different IDs on each device.

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