How do I permanently break market links?

Long story short, I've got apps on my phone from the Amazon App store as well as the Google Market. Up until the last month or so, they co-existed peacefully and everyone got along. Now, it's bad times.

In the past few months, the apps I bought from Amazon have magically been linked to the Google Market. Google tries to update them, then declines the updates because I haven't purchased the apps from them. Consequently I constantly get a message that there are half a dozen apps that need updates. To make matters worse, I had apps that I had used TB to deliberately break the market links because I did not want updates to those apps. Now I'm getting messages that those apps need to be updated as well.

No problem, I said to myself. I went in to TB and broke the links to all of these apps. They disappeared from the Market and peace and tranquility reigned in the land once more. (Ok, I may have been playing too much Stronghold lately.) Anyway, a week or so later the links appeared. I broke them again and they later came back. I'm now stuck in a vicious cycle. The Google Market wants to update my Amazon apps, but can't. I try to break the links, but that only works in the short term. How can I permanently break a market link and make it so it never, ever, ever comes back unless I manually put it back?

 

Can I freeze the market updater without breaking updating for all the other apps on the phone?

 

Cool. I do appreciate you risking b0rking your phone before asking me to b0rk mine. I'll try it out. (The freezing, not the b0rking.)

 

Update - Freezing the market updater did NOT work. I still have it frozen. The market links have now re-spawned. I'm open to other ideas.

 

I hate to top my own post, but does anyone have any ideas? This is really, really ticking me off at the moment.

 

Yes, I can break them, but they respawn. They're like zombies that won't die.

 

The problem is the Market is trying to find orphaned apps and fix their links. It's the devs fault really. They submitted the app to Amazon using the exact same package name as when they submitted the app to Google. So Google establishes a market link thinking the app belongs to them when it really doesn't. Whether I click to update automatically or not, the update still shows in the Market list. So I get a nag every day that I need to update X number of apps. The updates fail 'cuz I didn't buy the apps and then I'm frustrated.

I thought about renaming the packages myself, but it seemed complex and could potentially break other things was my thinking.

 

Yeah, that is useful. I hadn't thought of that. I wasn't aware you could schedule batch jobs like that in TB.