Unable to update app: different Apple accts!

Got Dream Dresses app with daughter's apple ID as she was teaching me how to use/play with apps. Before she left for college she closed her account AND created an acc for me so that i would continue playing and I loved it. I got new Apple acc so i could continue downloading apps without having to be linked to nobody's Acc (daughters). The Dream Dresses App is still in my phone BUT I cannot update because when I try to do so i get the blue little box which shows the ID and space for my password. Well, it reverts back to daughter's acct: it won't reflect my new acc, although it has been changed in "Settings." If i go to settings, my new acc shows correctly. i contacted the creator ("Breaktime Studios") and they swear this is an Apple issue: they won't help! SOMEBODY must have a solution to my dilemma. I want to continue playing Dream Dresses. I am in Level 32 I think, and have invested enough energy, time, and money to simply give up and delete game only to have to re-install and start anew. Not fair!
A very frustrated mom

- To update apps you have to sign into the account that purchased the apps. If you have apps that need updating purchased from more than one account you have to update them one at a time until the remaining apps were purchased from one account.
- This may work if you get the data from the backup, delete her app and download the app using your account.
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1. You don't own another Mac.
If the machine shipped with OS X 10.4 or 10.5, you need a boxed and shrink-wrapped retail Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) installation disc, which you can get from the Apple Store or a reputable reseller — not from eBay or anything of the kind. If the machine has less than 1 GB of memory, you'll need to add more in order to install 10.6. I suggest you install as much memory as it can take, according to the technical specifications.
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