App updates on iPhone won't disappear, etc...

I get the App update with the number of apps to be updated displayed on my iPhone. Whenever I try to update using the phone it always fails. When I connect to computer and update via iTunes and then sync then I get an error on all apps after they update and with some long error code. The apps all work but that annoying numbered update on the App icon on the iPhone is bugging me. How do you fix or clear that thing?

That ***** because yesterday the number was "3" and now it's "9." I was going to delete the three because I really didn't like those free apps anyhow, but now it's starting to affect the ones I like. And I have a lot of apps and don't want to have to do the restore fix people are suggesting and go through that long process and then have to rearrange my apps and icons on the phone...

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