Can't install ML, simply reboots to login panel???

I'm running a year-old iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011, OSX 10.7.5). When I run the Mountain Lion installer, everything appears normal up to the reboot phase. It then proceeds to reboot the machine back to the regular 10.7.5 login panel. The ML installer never runs!
What is going wrong here???

You keep amending your post here above... making it difficult to grasp and comment... or do I better wait a while?
(Note 2: This same procedure has worked fine on other machines, just not this one.)
Obviously, you have developed "your own procedures", and then it is hard to impossible to troubleshoot...
Guess you'll have to elaborate on those procedures, or also develop your own fix. Sorry.

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