Syncing Keychains with Mobileme

I'm not sure if I have a unique situation or not. But, I have an iMac (10.6) at home and also a iMac (10.5) at work which I sync via MobileMe. I would like to start syncing my keychains also. Both machines have the same user accountname, but I require separate 'login' keychains for each mac. I don't want these to sync. I have created a new keychain ('sean') which is the keychain I would like to sync.
I don't seem to have a problem syncing the 'sean' keychain. The problem is that as default MobileMe seems to want to sync the 'login' keychain and I can't seem to find a way of opting out of the sync option. The result is that the user account passwords/login keychains get messed.
Is there a way to make this work? Any takers?

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