One Computer,two iphones and syncing to two yahoo address books - problem

Hi all,
Before upgrading to itunes 7.7.1.11 (at least I think the upgrade caused the problem) I could associate my wife's iphone to her yahoo contact list and my iphone to my yahoo contact list. So when her phone was connected it would sync to her yahoo account and when mine was connected it would sync to my yahoo account.
Now what happens is that the last yahoo account 'configured' is what gets synced, regardless of phone. For example, I just set up my yahoo contacts in itunes and sync - great, evertyhing works.
Now, when I connect my wife's phone it will sync with my contact list - unless I go into the info tab and click the 'configure' button and change the yahoo account to hers (it automatically shows my account now. It used to show hers).
If I do this, then her phone syncs to her contacts fine. However, now when I connect my phone, the yahoo address book is set to configure with my wife's account, until I change it to mine - you get the idea of the pattern here.
Changing it isn't a big deal, but forgetting just once, really buggers things up.
This never used to happen - anyone experiencing this? Any thoughts to remedy?
Thanks.

You're not alone. We want one phone to get Outlook contacts and the other to get Yahoo. Simple, right? Each phone gets its own playlists, so why not its own contacts? Because Apple doesn't work that way. "One sync provider per iTunes account" is how the popup box puts it. But only when it comes to contacts. Thank goodness they don't carry this nonsense over to music and video syncing.
Amazing that Apple didn't anticipate this problem. Mom and Dad and Junior want to be on the same account so the family's iTunes purchases are shared, but of course they don't want the same contacts on their phones.
I had posted the problem here:
Contacts Sync Choice Not Remembered for Each Phone
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7975454#7975454

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