Multiple iCloud accounts but can't change descriptions

I have two iCloud accounts, and when I look at my Address Book and iCal it has both iClouds listed under their headers as only iCloud. I can not call one Jenny's icloud and one Lou's icloud.
This becomes very confusing. The wierd thing is my ipad2 and iphone allows you to change the description.

This is what I said at http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Title (make yours unique) : Cannot change iCloud Account Description Headers from name 'iCloud'
Hi,
I have two iCloud accounts setup on my mac syncing both contacts and calendars (Mine and my Partners).
I have given each account a unique account description so I can distinguish between them.
However, in iCal and Addressbook, the Account Description headers in the Calendar list and Address Books Groups respectively do not show this unique name. They are listed as 'iCloud' & 'iCloud'.
This makes it pretty well impossible to distinguish between the accounts. The iPhone allows you to input unique names and they are correctly shown in their respective apps, so it should be possible on OS X.
So far I could find 3 threads on Apple discussion showing this issue.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3418220?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16419170#16419170
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17268423#17268423
Thanks and here's to 10.7.3!

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I bought iCloud memory via that same account no problem.
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