Can't get Mountain Lion Server Server to upgrade properly - Configuring services

Hi All,
First of all thanks for any answers or suggestions you might have. We are a small business with about 25 employees. We have been running Lion Server for email and collaboration without much issue. Today we decided to upgrade to Mountain Lion Server, which was a big mistake apparently. We downloaded and installed Mountain Lion which went fine. We then downloaded and installed the new Server app and that's where things got hairy.
The Server app got to the part where it says Configuring Services and just sat there spinning. After about an hour I figured something was up and noticed in the console that there were a bunch of errors trying to update certain things. Needless to say we had to force quit the Server app after a long while and nothing got updated/migrated. We were left with a non functional server. Luckily we had set up the Lion Server to clone to another drive and we were able to boot to that to get back to work.
None of us have much experience with command line, part of the reason we got Lion Server in the first place was it's ease of use and GUI. So has anyone else had similar issues? We are kind of at a loss as to where to go next. Thanks!

It is indeed an option to wait, although I did manage to upgrade four servers that all have working forward and reverse DNS from Lion Server to Mountain Lion 10.8.
After installing OS X Server on top of that server specific items like mailboxes returned

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