App updates that fail & won't go away

Does anyone else have this problem?
I have four app updates on iTunes (for Billy Frontier, da Blob, Jules Verne's Return to Mysterious Island, and Space Monkey) that fail each time they try to download, with an error message. But they stay in my download queue, and every time I launch iTunes they try again, and fail again.
The thing is, these apps are already updated just fine directly on my iPhone! So these are useless updates, but they constantly fail and won't go away.
Before you suggest any combination of deleting/reinstalling from iTunes or the iPhone, I have done every combination you can think of.
This is not the first time this has happened. The last time it happened (also with Billy Frontier and da Blob), I had to call AppleCare, and they had to get a specialist to go into my online account and delete the items from my queue. So it's not a simple delete/reinstall fix. But it took a good hour and a half on the phone to explain it, walk through all the possible delete/reinstall combinations, and finally get the support person to get an iTunes person to fix the issue.
Does anybody have this problem besides me? And if so, have you found a fix?
Thanks.

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