Unable to update apps or download next segment of app game

Hello,
I am unable to Update All or even separately update any of my apps from the App Store. When I click on Update All, I give it my password then briefly see the blue update circle but then it goes right back to "Update". I've tried signing out of the App Store, doing a hard reset, then signing back into the App Store and that didn't fix it. Any thoughts?
As a side note, I tried purchasing the next levels of an app game and I get an error saying the game was used under a different Apple ID. I have recently reset my password but don't recall ever creating separate IDs. How do I find out if I have others out there or which ID a specific app is tied to?
Thanks,
Anne

Update:
Only thing left that I can think of - repair disk permissions on the drive that stores iTunes run files and repair disk on the external that holds the library content.  Repair of permissions reports (ACL missing on “Applications/iTunes.app”) but also that the ACL has been fixed.  So  I try my iTunes tasks again (mainly the app updates) and on first run iTunes says unable to download, file with duplicate name exists.  I don't know what the **** it's talking about for that, so I shut it down and reopened, and of course it went back to all original problems...
One more thing I've noticed - Just did a sync with my iPhone and initiated a Transfer Purchases first.  iTunes transferred my new books, but though it said it was transferring some 20 apps, all still call for updates and my newest apps (not yet in the library) are still not in the library...

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