Won't let me update iPhoto or iMovie

I just bought my MacBook Pro in August; online...so i set it up myself when it got to my home. I have been the only one to use it; set it up under my own itunes/app store account -- did all of my purchases and downloads under that account. But ever since the first week or two of having it, the app store has shown that updates are available for iPhoto and iMovie and it won't let me use those updates because it says that i used a different account to purchase them. I know that's not true -- as i states above, i've been the only one to use this computer and have only ever used my one account. However, when i look at the purchase history of my itunes account, iPhoto and iMovie aren't showing up so they're not registered under this account. I have no idea which account they could be registered under because i never use another account.
Any fix to this?

Click on MAS, then click under purchases tab. Do you see these apps waiting for you to ACCEPT them?
If not, then something bad went wrong somewhere, so contact iTS.
iTunes Store Support
http://www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html

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