Help! Stuck on boot screen (no spinning) after Lion upgrade.

Did an install of Lion on husbands week and a half old macbook pro 15". Right as I started the installation I had to get up to help my little one go back to bed. Briefly checked the progress of the install when I got back to the computer, still had some time left so I went to watch TV. Got up to see the boot screen up and decided to give the install more time just in case. It's now been about 2-3 hours on the boot screen. What should I do. I should mention the drive already has a bootcamp partition as well as the SL partition. Please help! I'm really hoping I didn't break his new computer (Tech really isn't his thing so it's up to me).
This is the screen I'm stuck on. Cursor works but that's it.

Re-starting and re-installing from the bootable drive I made seems to have fixed the issue. I'm performing a disk and permission repair now in disk utilities as a precaution now. Reinstall from disk took forever. Unfortunately didn't have any available USB or Firewire drives to try an alternate means of install.

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