Two Users on a Mac in Mavericks...how do you use 2 apple ID's and not get blocked?

After upgrading to Mavericks, we started getting a message "This computer is already associated with an Apple ID. If you download past purchases with your apple ID, you cannot auto-download or download past purchases with a different Apple ID for 90 days" message.
My husband and I have separate iPhones and iPads. We share an iMac, but we have separate logins. After this upgrade, one of us is always locked out of downloading purchases we made on our devices to the shared iMac.
If this creates a problem for us, surely it creates a problem for bigger families sharing one computer too? Anybody have an idea on a work-around?
We never had any problem with using 2 accounts on this machine for the past 2 years until Mavericks.

hmm, that's a trick one! what I would do is go to Messages>preferences>accounts and then select imessages and then select account details and then sign out. Then your wife will need to sign in with her apple id.
hope this helps!!
let me know if that works because I've never actually tried it.
simply adding both of your accounts to be reached at will prove to be faulty because when you reply you can only reply with the one email address. And even if you switch caller id's it probably still won't work. So I think my method would be the easiest way to do that at this time.

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