Apps are assigned to wrong Apple ID

Just bought my very first Apple purchase after resisting years of bombardment of propoganda from my friends and colleagues.
They all told me how "easy" they are and how they "just work".
Not so, I find this new 27" iMac so restrictive in what I can and cannot do and fear i've made a mistake making the apple plunge.
Please make me realise that I haven't as I want to love it as much as every other apple owner seems to love their product!
So, I bought it, I switched it on, played about with it. Then my girlfriend wanted a go. She set up a different user account and then on that user account she registered her Apple ID.
Now, the next day, i create a Apple ID.
I then go to the app store because there is a message saying updates available for imovie and iphoto. When I try to update it says the updates are only available for her apple ID and that I must log in with her account. I also tried to 'accept' these apps and it said i couldn't because they were already registered to her. It also said if i want to update them i must buy them but i can't buy them because it says that the app is already installed, plus I refuse to buy them as i already own them after shelling out £1500 for the computer itself!
Why do apple feel it necessary to restrict the update of the app to just my girlfriend. It seems a total joke to me. Why stop the owner of the computer from interacting with his or her machine just because sombody else who will use the machine owns some of the software from a previous purchase years ago?
Please help me....i simply don't know what to do as I have never really used a Mac and will be unbelievably dissapointed if I can't sort this. I don't want it (apple) to be a let down of my expectations.
Thank you.
JoeSto

MichelPM ,
I couldn't do an initial setup of my AppleID because yesterday it (according to the apple guy on the phone) the Apple ID network was down. Therefore everytime I tried to regitser a new apple ID under my own email/name it wouldn't allow me. Today, apple phoned me and told me the problem had been recotofied and I was now able to create a new apple ID, so thats's what I did.
That is why i couldn't do the initial setup of the computer (apple ID account myself). I just had a go of the computer (ie internet and had a look around it's UI). I'm not saying Macs suck, I'm saying that they are incredibly retrictive due to the fact that my girlfriend bought a mac over 5 years ago shouldn't and now I cannot update my own mac here and now in the present day. It was down to the fact that apple wasn't able to provide me with a apple ID creation service due to a fault with their system. It had nothing to do with my impatience, my girlfriend having a go or my im competence.
CSound1, of course I understand that, it's not suppose to meant in a literal sense. I can't discuss this with you if you don't even understand that rhetoric. You also have to understand that not eveyone on this planet is computer minded and even if they are they may not have been brought up on apple systems.
That is why (so I hear) that apple are so good, because they do not prejudice or discriminate their customers unlike yourself, who thinks its funny to poke fun at the fact that I may know less than you about the apple world.
As i said before Dr Jeff is the only person here who is actually offering adivice as opposed to poking fun or abuse.

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