App store won't download updates

Recently, I've been attempting to download updates for a few of my apps. I'm not getting any error messages, but as of now it has been stuck with the little loading wheel on and zero download progress for the last two hours. I am on a 2.5 mbps connection, and have never had any problems with download speed until now. I have restarted twice already, to no effect. I'm about to try booting from my backup, but I'd rather not have to copy over my hard drive just to get the app store working properly.
Thanks.

This might be a Lion problem and while we all have MacBooks in this forum most of us don’t have Lion. There's a Lion Support Community where everybody has Lion. You should also post this question there. https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.7_lion

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