Two iPhones? Beware of sync!

For the second time in as many months, my wifes' contacts have been merged with mine on my iPhone. I sync them both to the same (Windows) computer but under separate user accounts and separate Yahoo address book accounts. This just shouldn't happen. Thankfully, this time the opposite has not happened: my contacts merged with hers on her iPhone. This is really lame. I just had to spend an hour scrubbing my contacts to remove hers from my Yahoo address book and my phone. The fact it takes four "touches" to delete a contact on the phone makes this excruciating...I have 750 contacts! Please, Apple, get a grip, and give me reliable, secure sync and backup...and some documentation as to what gets synced to where and when.

I'm thinking that if I turn off sync, my contacts won't be backup up, either. And, I would like to have the same contact info in Yahoo address book as I have in my phone. I just want my contacts in my address book in my Yahoo account, and her contacts in her Yahoo address book. I don't want hers and I don't want her to have mine. I asked for help on this topic before, and was told (correctly) that the phone backs up to Windows Address Book. And sure enough, both sets of contacts were merged in WAB and available to whichever one of us was logged on. This is really, really insecure. I thought I solved that problem by just encrypting the .wab file but now I have this problem.
I do make sure only one user is logged on to Windows before I sync, or just use iTunes in general. I know iTunes is squirrely if more than one instance is running in Windows at the same time.
The paradigm I'm most familiar with is the Treo and Palm Desktop. Contacts are synced to PD and I have the option of exporting to Yahoo Address Book. But PD will not run if another user tries to access it, so it's secure. And contacts can be edited within PD so the user knows exactly what is on the phone and what will result from a sync. And I had the option of overwriting PD with the phone info, or vice versa, in case they got out of sync. Don't have that with the iPhone. And there is no documentation that I'm aware of to tell me what is being synced and where, so I won't be surprised to see all my contacts on someone elses' phone.

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