Preventing old unwanted account from updating apps...

Before I joined mobile me I used my old email address to setup an Apple ID account for my iPod. Over time I bought apps for the iPod. Since mobile me came out I had to make a new account with my new mobile me email address as it wouldn't accept my old hotmail address. Subsequently I know have two Apple accounts and never use the hotmail-addressed one for my iPod as I now have 3 separate libraries under my mobile me-assigned account for my iPod, iPhone and iPad. HOWEVER, as logic states whenever there is an update for anything bought or installed from my old hotmail-addressed account, it flags itself as an update which I cannot get rid of unless I sign out of my current Apple ID account and into my old hotmail one, update them and then sign back out and into my current Apple ID. VERY VERY annoying.
Is the only solution to delete all apps from my old account (if that is possible) and fill the fields with false info to cut all links and ties; as I know you cannot delete an Apple account?
Anything would help......it's really getting on my t*ts having to update things twice esepcailly with the number of stuid updates there seem to be nowadays with apps!
Thanks!

Apps will always be tied to the account from which they were purchased.  They will always have to be updated from that account.
Why did you start a new account?  You could have changed the e-mail address associated with your old account.
You can delete the apps and buy them from your new account if you like.

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