I can't install ilife after a lion reinstall ??

i recently purchased a macbook pro with retina display around a week ago and i just did a clean reinstall of os x lion yesterday and my ilife apps (imovie, iphoto and garageband) disappeared. so logically i went to the mac app store to redownload them, but instead of the "install" button it now says "accept" and when i click accept it prompts me to type my password and the its says:
These apps have already been accepted.
these apps were already assigned to your Apple ID
and are available in your purchases list.
but the aren't in my purchases ! and many people have soveled this problem by going to the "store" tab then "view account..." and then unhide their apps, but i don't have that "unhide" option ?
how can i solve this problem ?

Well there has been some real screw ups at Apple lately. As yesterday was the release of the new OS X version Mountain Lion and that all the newer MBPs and Airs came with a special version of Lion that for a while was not available to do a reinstall. People had wiped there hard drive to find out that the version they were downloading to reinstall didn't work on their shiny new Mac computers.
Your only options are to call apple and see if they can straigthen it out so you can DL those apps from the App store or to return that system for a full refund, you have 14 days from purchase date to return it No Questions Asked, and then buy or order another one.

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