Two iPhones synched to one iTunes

My wife last night decided she wanted an iPhone (I've had one since July) So we went and got one for her last night. We activated it without trouble and then I suggested she set up her contacts in Yahoo to sync them to the phone. After she put in as many as she had patience for last night (her business by nature means she will have a LOT of contacts) We synced her phone and set up her yahoo account in iTunes with her phone plugged in. After the sync, I checked the contact list (for the first time, this may have happened earlier) and all MY contacts AND her contacts were in her phone. My contacts were then also listed on her Yahoo account online. So we tested and deleted one and then sync'd her phone again, forcing it to overwrite the phone contacts. That worked as the deleted contact is gone. This morning she was checking out the calendar and it has copied my calendar into her phone. Is this normal for iTunes to assume you want both phones to be identical? It's not a big deal to clean up her phone of the things she doesn't need from my phone. She wants a lot of my contacts and most of my calendar entries are things we have planned together. But if it continues to do this going forward, we are both going to get frustrated fast! Thanks for any help!

The contacts seem to be staying separate between the 2 phones now. Mine uses my Yahoo account, hers uses her account. The calendar is a problem though. We deleted a weekly appointment from my calendar that was on her phone. When I plugged her phone in, it wants to replace information on the computer (delete 1 event) I have no options in iTunes to tell it to do anything different. It just says no compatible calendar software on this computer. So all it should do is backup whatever we do with out calendars on our phones (individually) I guess since it's just 1 repeating event I'll tell it to replace the computer information to test and see if it just copied my calendar to start hers and now has them separated. Any other ideas?
Update: I just plugged her phone in, let it over write the calendar, then plugged my phone in and sure enough, my event is gone. That's disappointing that it won't just automatically make the backup for each phone unique. If I had a calendar program I'd have some opportunity to do something to control it, but I don't. Now what?
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