Wireless sync user account

I have my iPad 2 and iPhone 4S set up to sync wirelessly with my itunes library, and this works great. The problem is, whenever my wife logs into her user account on the Mac, and opens her itunes library, my devices appear in the list on the left of iTunes and start syncing. I have tried clicking on my devices in iTunes within her user account on the Mac and clearing the checkbox to disable wireless sync, but I then receive a message about this action deleting all the content off my phone, so I never proceed with this. We have different iTunes libraries, on different machine user accounts and use different Apple ID's.
Any idea how to prevent my iDevices from syncing with her iTunes library?
Thanks in advance for any pointers!
Mark

Am I really the only person experiencing this?
Why is my iPhone 4S syncing wirelessly with my wife's iTunes library when she is logged into the Mac.
Seems like such a fundamental issue! There has to be a way to limit whch libraies my devices sync with!
Thanks in advance for any assistance!
Mark

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