Two user accounts, one itunes, and updating apps

This may be just a rant, but perhaps somebody has some ideas for how to fix this.
My wife and I both have iTunes accounts, and we have material, including apps, from both accounts on our main home computer.
Frequently, the Apps icon shows that there are 'updates' for the various Apps. Like a fool, I click on the button and see what updates there are. So far, so good.
When I try to download updates, though, I have all sorts of issues. The most common is that it says something like 'sorry, bozo, these updates are for the other account, not the one your logged into right now. log into the other account and come back.'
That's the kind of thing that is just a plain stupid pain. Why in the **** can't it just keep the account information available and just download the blasted updates? I don't want to have to log into other accounts. I don't have to when I download updates on my iPhone (which also has some apps from both accounts) – why do I have to do it in iTunes?
Bleep, bleep, BLEEEEP!
It does a bunch of other things that are equally (or more) stupid, too. Sometimes, it gives me a message that I "can't update this software since I have not owned the major version of it". I'm guessing that this is related to the account thing, too.
iTunes people: For the love of Pete, please, please, make the multiple accounts on one iTunes feature more user(s) friendly.
Everybody else: please tell me if there is some sort of secret trick for making all these problems go away.

I still think this is stupid. Maybe I'm one of a small minority that has more than one iTunes account active in a single iTunes library? Or is this a common situation?

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