Multiple users, 1 iTunes account, multiple devices, iCloud, help!

My wife and I share 1 itunes account.  She uses a PC, I use a macbook.  We each have an iPhone4, iPads and iPods.  I am in the process of setting up the iCloud and am having some issues. 
First, my Apple ID is not in the form of an email address, so iCloud doesn't recognize it.  I have a mobile me account that I have migrated over and my wife uses AOL for email.  I cannot set up iCloud on her ipad or iphone because the apple ID is invalid.
Secondly, if I change my Apple ID to an email address, it won't let me use my mobile me email, so I would have to create a new one.  If I do update with a new email address, what happens when I activate the iCloud on our devices?  Will all 4 devices then become the same when synched?  How do we keep them individual when synched with the same iCloud account?
Thanks

Here's my situation, and what I have discovered:
My family shares one Apple ID for our iTunes purchases. We have two iPhones, two iPads and an iPod touch all running iOS 5 between us. The 'master' Apple ID, that we all use for iTunes, is my e-mail address. I created a separate Apple ID (their own e-mail addresses) for each individual in the family, which is used to connect to the iCloud for the purposes of syncing and backing up to the iCloud.
The only odd configuration I have found is that each device that I set up with a different Apple ID for the iCloud, also retains an iCloud mail account with the 'master' Apple ID. The e-mail address (the 'master' Apple ID) for this iCloud mail account (called 'iCloud') cannot be changed, although the account can be deleted (which I don't want to try because I don't know the consequences). The only thing I have enabled in this iCloud account is 'Find My iPhone/iPod' so all my family's devices can be seen in the Find My iPhone app using my 'master' Apple ID.
Using this setup we have been able to maintain our own Contacts and Calendars, all synced to iCloud using our individual Apple IDs.

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