Two Apple IDs, one iCloud ID, will it work?

Two Apple IDs, one iCloud ID, will it work?
In my house we have two iPhones and one Mac. My husband and I have two separate Mac accounts, separate iTunes accounts and one common Mobile Me account we use to synch Calendar and Address book between our Mac and our devices. In our separate iTunes libraries we have separate songs, podcast settings, and separate apps. We use one common iPhoto library for our two Mac accounts (which we keep on an external volume with Permissions disabled, to avoid file privilege issues in iPhoto.
It's all working well with MobileMe, but I'm concerned iCloud will make a big mess.
We want common calendar.
We want common address book.
We want separate Apps (no room for us both to have all apps).
We want some shared reminders (like shopping list) but some separate ones (like work tasks). I understand there is a bug about this, but I don't know the resolution (https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa/4/wo/lHQWT8NZajvGPvP 7ObMPj0/8.66)
We don't care much about common PhotoStream (as long as it works for one of us).
How can we make this all work, when we move to iCloud?
How do we control what synchs and what does not synch?
Has anyone done this kind of complex setup before?
Thanks,
Peter

I have this same issue and have since day one. I cannot seem to figure out how to get into icloud.

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