Erroneous software update indicator won't go away

I have the App Store icon on my dashboard and it shows the little red circle with a number "1" in it indicating that I have a software update. I click on that and it tells me that I have an update for iMovie. No big deal so far. When I click on the "update" box to download the software a dialog box opens up informing me "You have updates available for other accounts. Sign into 'other user' to update applications for that account" where 'other user' is my wife's account - we share the same laptop. Repeatedly clicking "update" merely opens the same dialog box.
If I then go into my wife's account on this computer and do the software update it shows no updates are available, including iMovie. If I do an update within the App Store it also shows that no updates are available.
I have confirmed that I am running the latest version of iMovie (when I first saw this update it did update correctly).
Any idea how I can get this little red circle to go away since I really don't have any updates?
One final bit - my children use this computer, as well, and they also show an update indicator, but get the same error message that I do.
Please let me know if you need any additional information to help me solve my problem! Thanks!

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