Cannot install - Installer buttons not responding OSX Mountain Lion

When it ask me to click next, or do i want updates none of the buttons respond. So I cannot install it with the web installer? I click them and they show as if pressed, but nothing happens? Only way to install is use the offline installer. I have just done a clean install of Mountain Lion so it can't be my system!
Is the installer just busted or something else? See the retry button? Well it does not do anything, either by clicking or pushing enter. It presses and highlights like it is clicked but that's it. All I get the is the "funk" sound from my macbook when I press enter.

1. Download the installer.
2. Quit Safari
3. Double click the installer from it's download location.
4. Run it.
Should work fine.

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Andy,
Sorry this is so long...just trying to help and support your efforts. I for one am not convinced your install was damaged (because of my experience below!) but it COULD be. I think mende1's suggestions were a good start.
Not knowing what MBP model and previous OS you have it's difficult to say at this point exactly WHAT the issue is with your upgrade. I have heard the upgrades to Lion and Mtn Lion from anything previous can be problematic, depending on various things and/or how it is done. But usually, the older the MBP model and OS are (or any other Mac for that matter, assuming it CAN be upgraded of course), the more issues there can be.
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Can't help wondering thought, people are ok with this?
Basically Apple are saying: "Do not attempt to install an older version of OSX which came preinstalled. If so, expect multiple failures." Really?! Has it always been so? For me it's not like I'm going to install Snow Leopard on my Late 2013 Retina MBP, but I would expect some form of backward compatibility between the previous version and it successor. Apparently this is not possible, and how is this even acceptable?
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