HT2476 I had to reinstall OS X, but I lost Lion.

During an update, I got an error message saying that one or more of the needed updates could not be installed and I must restart the update. I clicked the restart option but then everything froze. So I did the power button restart, but when the screen came back up it had a messge saying "You must restart your computer, please hold the power button until it turns off, then press the button again" however, when I did so the same message came back up. I ran disk utility but it said their was nothing wrong with any of my disks, so I reinstalled the OS X that came with my laptop. I managed to save almost all of my data except my update to OS X Lion. Now I cant access various apps because it says the app is not compatible with my current OS. Unfortunantly, one such app is the app store. So I cant even go and download Lion again. Thankfully I had firefox installed because I also cant use safari. Can someone offer any advice???

Hi Bozo - you are not alone.   Same thing happened to me, it's called a Kernel Panic when that grey screen rolls down and you get the. Multi-language error message.  I called Apple Support and they told me to restore Lion, but you need to go online to do it.  Call them and they will walk you thru the steps.   Not complicated, but a time consuming.
They said they are aware of the problem with the updates released yesterday and are working to find the corrupt file.  They suggested I wait 3-4 days before trying to apply any updates again.
Hope this helps.

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