Owner's name on my computer is wrong

Hi all,
I'm having a strange issue on my Mac (and iCloud) that I noticed since migrating to iCloud and installing 10.7.2.  Not sure if anyone else is having this problem, but it's very irritating.
Basically, what I noticed first was when I logged in to http://www.icloud.com, beside my name it showed the picture of my wife that is set on her contact profile.  Weird, I thought, but oh well.  Next, I was playing with 'Find My Friends' on my iPhone, and noticed that my dot said my wife's name.  Finally, when I started a new Xcode project, at the top of each file in the generated comment, it has "Created by <wife's name>".
This is beyond rediculous.
Has anyone else had this problem and know how to fix it?  Is there some place that I can't think of that stores a name for the owner of the computer?  When I went to System Preferences->iCloud, it did have her name, which I changed back to mine.  Doesn't seem to help with my iPhone thinking its hers as well as Xcode creating files with her name in it.

Matt,
Thanks for your response!  After reading it, it inspired me to dig a little deeper, and I found a solution.
If you open up Address Book on your Mac, click on your own contact info (or create yourself one if you don't already), and in the menu bar, select Card -> Make This My Card.  That should now be your own "me" information on your devices..
I hope this helps you.  It certainly fixed my problems (whew)!

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