Bought used Macbook, how to update iPhoto?

All,
I bought a used Macbook about a year ago and have loaded my entire photo library onto it.  When in the appstore, i noticed iPhoto had updates available, and when i go to update it, it's trying to use the old owners Apple ID - and the user id is greyed out so I cannot override it.  This is the only app i've ever had an issue with updating.  Anyone have any ideas?

i would backup microsoft office then i would take the restore cds and completely restore the computer to its original state
goodluck
alex

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