Reinstalling Mountain Lion on brand new MPB Retina??

Hi Everyone,
I bought my first MBP retina literally 2 days ago. Anyways, last night I saw that I had an update in the iTunes store. The update was for iOS7. Without much thought, I downloaded the update. When it was finished downloading, I clicked "restart now". A few minutes went by and nothing happned. The cursor was gone and everything seemed frozen. So I manually restart the computer.
When the computer rebooted I kept getting some kind of kernel panic on the boot screen. Nothing would happen. So I rebooted and held command + r. I then proceeded to reinstall a new copy of mountain lion because that was the only thing I could think to do.
Everything appears to be fine now but I have a few questions.
1) I didn't run disk utility and erase the disk before reinstalling a new copy of mountain lion. Is that a problem? Do I have two versions of the OS saved on my hard drive or did the new download just overwrite the previous version?
2) Why was an update for iOS7 showing up in my itunes store?
3) Should I worry about having to reinstall mountain lion after literally using the macbook for only a few hours.
Thanks for your help

New2Mac12 wrote:
1) I didn't run disk utility and erase the disk before reinstalling a new copy of mountain lion. Is that a problem? Do I have two versions of the OS saved on my hard drive or did the new download just overwrite the previous version?
2) Why was an update for iOS7 showing up in my itunes store?
3) Should I worry about having to reinstall mountain lion after literally using the macbook for only a few hours.
Thanks for your help
No it is not a problem and the new installation simply overwrote the previous one
The iOS 7 upgrade is ONLY for iPhones and iPads and should have had no effect on OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). I am not sure what you actually did because the normal process for installing iOS 7, or any iOS update or upgrade including iPhone and iPad apps downloads to a folder in the iTunes folder. In fact the iTunes store is the only place to get new or updated software for the iPhone and iPad. Do not confuse the iTunes Store with App Store which is a separate application for downloading and installing Mac OS X updates and software. There is an update to iTunes 11.1 that must be downloaded before attempting to download and install iOS 7. I suspect that is what you actually installed, but I have no idea why it could or would mess up Mountain Lion. For the last couple of days the Apple download servers have been completely swamped by all the iOS 7 downloads and reports of the downloads taking two and three hours are common. The problem may have been related to that, but that is purely a guess.
No you should not be concerned about the reinstallation. As I said I do not know what happened, but you should not have been able to install anything to do with iOS 7 on your new Mac.
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