Lion Installation STUCK

Hi,
this is extremely frustrating, i've been trying all morning to install Lion from scratch (with the burned DVD backup) on my iMac (after installing it successfully on my MBPro), but the installer gets stuck on "Downloading additional components. Your computer will restart automatically".
Looking at the log the last line is this:
Retrieved package com.apple.MacOSX.lang.tr (file://localhost/Volumes/Image%20Volume/Packages/Turkish.pkg)
i don't even want turkish, i don't really see why i'm not able to choose which languages i want to install, but this is a different matter.
What can i do? I tried booting without a network connection, repairing the hard drive over and over again, wiping it, everything one can do (which is pretty much nothing considering the simplicity of the installer) i did.
Please help, i kind of need my computer.
PS. i don't think it's downloading anything, i have a very fast connection and in all this time i could have downloaded a full install 3/4 times.

Just to follow-up on my previous post ...
I finally decided to let the installer continue even though the "time remaining" counter continued to rise. And I'm happy to report that after about 45 minutes of just letting it sit, it very quickly finished, rebooted and all is well.
Best advice I can give is to just let it go and ignore the counter for time remaining. Total install time on the iMac was about an hour and a half, but it finally did work and all is working well.
Hope this helps. Your mileage may vary.
Travis

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