Mac App Store acting strangely for about a month now

I have snow leopard and when I go into the Mac App store, and click on "Categories", I then cannot click on headings such as "Productivity" or "Games". But I can click on the items under those headings. When I say "cannot click" I mean that when I click on the heading, it blinks as though I did click on it, but then it goes nowhere, just stays at that main category screen. It does it for every catergory heading. Everything else working fine with my system. I have 10.6.8, imac 21.5. I also have a macbook air that I have upgraded to mountain lion and it works fine on that machine. Not sure what is going on, such an odd problem to have. Sure does slow me down from buying on the mac app store, that's for sure, hmmm, maybe this is a good thing LOL. Seriously though, any help would be appreciated.

The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
It's not just you and your kit, it is behaving that way for me as well in Mountain Lion. So I surmise it is doing that for everyone.

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