Lion won't go past "install" in App Store

I tried to instlal Lion a few days ago. Went through the App Store, put in my login stuff, hit buy and then it popped up on my dock with the progress bar. After a few hours it was still not even 25% so I went to bed. The next morning it had not made any more progress. I clicked it and it said it was paused, so I clicked resume, but nothing happened. It wouldn't change to say "Pause" so its like it never unpaused.
Now after I quit it and tried again when I open the app store if it doesnt already say "Installing" then that's all it says after I click "Install" and the icon won't even pop up in the dock anymore.
Running a macbook pro with 4gb @ 2.53 ghz. Not sure what other info you guys may need so let me know if I can give you more

I have, numerous times. When I do the App Store just says Install. When I click it, it says installing but the icon never pops up

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vikas4s wrote:
My MacBook Pro was pre-installed with MAC OS X LION.
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I purchased it in the app store and it immediately debited my account for the cost (of course).
When I click on install I simply get "0 bytes of 3.74 GB - Less than a minute remaining" AND IT NEVER CHANGES.
After a while I get red letters next to the INSTALL icon that simply states "An error has occurred" (Really? Derrr...) and the icon disappears from my launch bar.
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I'm a NEW Apple owner. Not such a great first impression I have to say.
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Hi Thanks for the update. Apple say my speed is fine I have ADSL and have downloaded FCP 10 , motion, compressor all without any issues.
For me to drive to a store is about 80k and then likely I would have to leave it with them, so 4 trips and a BIG disruption for me. There has to be an easier solution to this, after all its just a download file!!
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