OS Lion on my 2 machines?

I have been using Lion on my iMac for ages now-all ok. Last weekend I bought my friends 2008 Macbook-its running OS 10.6.8. When I log into the app store on both machines I can see the Lion purchase but when I click to download it again from my macbook a pop up says you need 2GB of space to download and cancels it. Now, before you ask, I have 109GB of space so that isnt the issue. I dont want to have to buy it again either. I have read that if you still have the Mac OS X Lion install app on your machine you can copy across and it works but I also read that once you do install and restart that gets deleted-I certainly dont have it.
Any suggestions?

I had the same problem this morning, Alt click on "Installed" button did not work,Alt click on Purchases in Mac Apps Store did not work.
Eventually I "Quit" App Store and Reopened it Holding down Alt Key, that got rid of the "Installed" status and I Re Bought OSX Lion after signing in and being told by Apple I did not have to Pay, and successfully downloaded.
Worked for me, I hope it does the same for you.

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I don't know what you did, but there must have been some option to clear the external HD. To my knowledge, restoring from a Time Machine backup will NOT clear the external HD.
Since I was not there, I really cannot speculate on what happened:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4927
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Now I'm getting worried because:
I don't know if the history will be kept after the backup has run;
Because it will push 500GB of data to the TM storage, it might fill it up and TM will start to remove older backup whereas this would have been unnecessary.
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It's a 'new feature' .. check out this post here https://discussions.apple.com/message/16148789#16148789 .. if you don't agree with this new feature, please join us in raising it as a bug for Apple to fix.

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to calm your nerves: on my computer I have CS3 and CS4, and I work with both versions, but of course, I never use them at the same time. First, I had CS3, CS4 I installed later.
All the keyboard short cuts, like yours work free from defects.
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