Help! Clean install Mountain lion, nothing happened after entering Apple ID

I have a Macbook Air 11 (mid-2011). Recently I have purchased Mountain lion from App store and upgraded it with no problems. But I would like to have a clean installation to clear all my previous settings and installed Apps.
I pressed 'Option' to restart the computer to Recovery mode, run 'Disk Utility' to erase the harddisk, then clicked 'reinstall OS' to start the installation.
The first few steps look good, when it comes to select a partition for installation, I selected the harddisk and clicked 'Continue'. Then it prompts me to enter my Apple ID and password, I entered it, then the prompt box disappeared with nothing to happen. I then tried to click 'Continue' again, the input box prompted again to ask me for my Apple ID and password, I entered again and, again, nothing happened.
First I thouhg it may be the network problem, so I click 'Continue' again and this time I entered a wrong password. But it can warn me that my password is incorrect, which means the system can actually connect to the internet.
I then opened the log window, and see the following error messages:
localhost Unknown[287]: 2012-08-02 09:29:52.489 Install OS X Mountain Lion[312:1803] Couldn't find app store version, falling back to hardcoded
localhost Install OS X Mountain Lion[312]: Can not connect to /var/run/systemkeychaincheck.socket: No such file or directory
Please help!!
Thanks in advance.

I have had this problem today as well, I phoned Apple and they said it's a known issue that they don't know how to fix it at the moment. I can't get past the grey start up screen with the Apple logo and the spinning wheel. I can get in to the recovery utility but can't download ML.
I went to a repair centre earlier today and they installed it from a disk they had made themselves and it booted twice after that and then died again.
I've booked in for them to call me tomorrow morning so I'll see what they have to say.

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