App Store Not Allowing Updates to Download

I am attempting to apply the updates found in the App Store, but I have had no success. This is a rather new development that began yesterday (11/9/11). I have a Mid-2009 MacBook Pro (2.26Ghz, 8 GB of RAM, 250 GB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256MB, and I am running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74)). I keep getting the following error:
"We Could Not Complete Your Request. There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (null)"
As I said, it started yesterday, so I have tried "later." Any ideas? Am I missing something? Have there been App Store issues? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I was attempting to update some applications purchased/acquired through the Mac App Store. I figured out the problem. The computer is my wife's but we have different accounts. We both are admins. The apps were installed via my Apple ID, but from her user account on the Mac. When I logged out of my account, and into her's, the updates downloaded smoothly. I am an idiot. Thanks for your help (seriously, I appreciate the attempt to help).

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Apple doesn't monitor here. Best we can do is to push you to contact Apple directly.
This is from the iOS Dev Center forum...
http://devimages.apple.com/maintenance/
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