App Updater not working on iMac

I have 260 apps and 125 of the apps have updates available, yet, when I click the updates available button, I keep getting an error that the server is busy and to try again later. It's been over a month. Is there something wrong with my database? If so, how do I fix it? On my iPhone, I can update without a problem.
By the way, this was happening in iTunes 8 as well as iTunes 9.
Thanks.

You're welcome. I fooled with this for a few weeks before I stumbled on the solution. I suppose there is some way to allow app updates through the barrier, but I no longer use the it so I don't know.

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