App Store wants me to sign in as someone else?

I'm using a pre-owned computer, but with no identity problems until now: I restarted my computer and when I opened App Store later and tried to update a couple apps, it required me to sign in with the Apple ID of the previous owner. Strangely, I've gone to Store:Sign In/Sign Out several times with my own ID, and up there it says I'm signed in, but when I press "Update" next to the app that needs updating, it still asks me for the Apple ID that's not mine. (Btw, in that pop-up window, the Apple ID box with [email protected] in it, is greyed out so I can't change it; otherwise I would change it to my own.) I'm having no troubles with my ID on iTunes, so I don't know what the deal is.
Why I restarted my computer in the first place: I downloaded the OS X Mavericks update and it restarted my computer. ...When I was logging back in, it asked me to sign in with my Apple ID, and I did. No problems there...
Please help.

The original owner was supposed to erase the hard drive and restore the version of OS X that shipped on the Mac. That Mac is associated with the original owner's Apple ID. All apps that were bought by the original owner are now pirated software on your part as the original owner cannot legally share them with you.
The original owner needs to call Apple Care and have the Mac disassociated from their Apple ID.
You need to use OS X Recovery to erase the Mac, reinstall OS X Mavericks and the iLife apps.
Then you need to set it up as a new Mac, open the Mac App Store and accept the iLife apps into your account and then reinstall all of your own iTunes and Mac App Store content.
OS X Recovery -
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

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