I am trying to download Lion, but the icon just says waiting...

Lion appeared in my dock, but when I scroll over it all it says is OS X Lion - Waiting... The progress bar below has not made any progress either and I have been waiting at least an hour. Any suggestions?

Go to the top menu, click on Window > Activity and set it to show all logs and see if it is actually doing anything at all.
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