AppStore updates launch the apps rather than updating them

Recently I went to update the apps on my son's iPad. The UpdateAll button was greyed out and when I pressed update on an individual app it launched the app rather then updating it. I then tried the same thing on my iPad Mini and got the same results. Tried powering cycling the devices and closing all apps but no change.
I was able to go to purchased apps on the app store page and was successful in updating individual apps from there so I know things work in general, but I have no idea what could be causing the behavior I'm seeing.

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Revision: 13641
Revision: 13641
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-01-19 15:13:20 -0800 (Tue, 19 Jan 2010)
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