Also unable to download Mavericks

Hello! First of all, yes, I have looked through many other threads about this same problem, and I have followed the directions given there, but I am still unable to download Mavericks from the App Store.
I'm using a mid-2009 13-inch MacBook Pro, 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, currently running 10.7.5.
When I go at Mavericks through the apple site, it prompts me to launch the App Store application. I do that, and get the page for it in the App Store. I click on the Download button, I get a brief little wheel up in the top bar of the App Store page, then nothing happens. I click on Purchases, and I see OS X Mavericks there with a Download button. I click this Download button and again get a wheel at the top of the page that spins for a moment, then nothing happens.
I have let it sit for hours, hoping it would get going eventually as some people have said it does. I have restarted several times, logged out of the App Store and back in again several times. I have followed the links that people have posted in other threads about troubleshooting this process, but nothing has seemed to make any difference, and most of them haven't even addressed this particular issue.
Any other ideas? Do I just need to keep restarting and trying again and again?
Thanks in advance for your help...
Rosemary

Ok, finally had the chance to try some other things, and still no luck. I have tried with a different internet connection, and still got the same results. Then a friend who has successfully downloaded Mavericks logged on through my computer with his apple ID, went into his purchases and tried downloading Mavericks through there, and the same thing happened. There just seems to be some kind of blockage on my computer or something. Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Rosemary

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