Messages Phone Number Problem

I've got a MBP running Mtn Lion. Messages will not bring up, nor can I add my iPhone's cell number to my Messages account.
My iPhone is running iOS 5.1.1.
Having said that, my wife's iPhone, running iOS 6.0.1 is showing up as the default number on my Messages account. Apparently when an iPhone is running iOS 6, it will show up as a possible phone number for Messages...
Messages has a bit of double-speak associated with this problem. The Messages help pages indicate that the phone numbers that show up are those associated with the Apple ID (but they don't on my system). However, I've read (and darned if I can't find the text again, now), that an iPhone running iOS 6 will show up as a number for the Apple ID...
I've tried adding my phone number to the "add email address" field (per another thread's solution), but this hasn't worked for me...
So, short of upgrading my iPhone's iOS (which I'd rather not do until the iOS 6 maps fiasco has been remedied, or Google Maps is available as an app, again), is anyone aware of a fix to this problem...
Any thoughts?!?!
Thanks
Bob

Hi,
To get the Mac App Messages and an iPhone to get the iPhone Number into Message as a Send and Receive item you have to be on OS X 10.8.2 and iOS 6 at least.
At iOS 5.1.1 the Message App on the iPhone will only "sync" the iMessages sent to the iPhone that were sent to the Apple ID.
The iPhone Number's Messages will not sync to the Messages app on the Mac.
iMessages sent to the iPhone Number therefore tend to be "private" from the syncing that is going on with iMessages to the Apple ID
Apple uses the word "sync" but "Display on all devices" is a more accurate description as what you do with the iMessage on one device does not show up on others.
You will have noticed that on the iPhone in Settings > Messages that the "Receive at" has become Send and Receive and includes the iPhone Number.
This is replicated to some extent in the Messages version 7.0.1 (At the OS X 10.8.2 update) with the iPhone Number(s) being a Send From option in the drop down at the bottom.
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