Unable to Update Any Applications purchased through MAS

Hello.
I am unable to update any of my purchased apps from the Mac App Store. Have used the 10.6.6 combo updater, repaired disk permissions, reset Apple ID password, but am still unable to update. The updates tab is empty, and when I try to click an Update button from the purchases tab, I get a dialog that says:
"You have updates available for other accounts. Sign in to (null) to update applications for that account."
I haven't used any other Apple ID for the MAS.
Console.app is spitting out this error when I try to update:
1/18/11 7:48:26 PM App Store[6985] multibyte IDs are unsupported.

I posted a solution in http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=13006522&tstart=0 that worked for me. I had Spotlight indexing disabled (Privacy tab > added the root drive). I allowed Spotlight to reindex and now the App Store works as expected.
If anyone wants to take the time and discern what specifically Spotlight needs to index that would be great as I never use it and hate the rude mds and mdworker processes thrashing at the drive.
Hope it helps!
Oh! The console message that led me here was:
date time mdsprocessID (Warning) Server: No stores registered for metascope "kMDQueryScopeComputer"
It appeared every time I started the App Store.

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