Purchased new MacBook, how do to sync two existing iPhones?

Here's my long winded question:
I just purchased a new MacBook and my wife and I each have an iPhone on our respective PowerBooks.
We would like to start syncing our phones to the new MacBook. I plan on placing our music and pictures together in the Users/Shared folder so we can share these files in iTunes, iPhoto, and on our iPhones. We would also like to have our own accounts so we could have our own settings like dock, bookmarks, etc. How do I back up and transfer our iPhone applications as well as our iPhone settings so that we can transfer them to our new accounts on the MacBook?
I'd rather start with new clean accounts instead of transferring using the Migration Assistant.

I mean any apps on your iphone that you bought.
Everything is stored in your music library.
If you transferred your library for music, you should also have your apps. You can verify that by opening iTunes and look under Apps.
If not, and you still have access to your old computer, they should be here:
Users/username/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications
You could also re-download them if you have a list.
But the best way to do this is to move your entire iTunes folder to the new computer.

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