Mac App Store problems, OS X Lion

I've been trying to download a game (GTA: San Andreas) from the Mac App Store all day today. My MacBook is a mid 2009 model, with a 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard disk, with 140GB free. My home broadband connection is 50MB. I bought the game this morning, the store accepted my payment, and the download started immediately. Since then I've found myself in App Store ****. Every so often the download stops. The time remaining increases up to ridiculous heights (129 days remaining), and then drops to "less than one minute remaining", where it gets stuck forever. The game is 4.19GB in size, so I have more than enough hard disk space remaining to download it, but whatever happens, the download stalls, and never starts again.
So far, I've tried:
Connecting the computer to wired Ethernet
Restarting the computer
Checking if I had enough free space, and checking that my hard disk passed a SMART test using SMART Utility
Removing the game from Launchpad (by holding Option and clicking the 'x' that appears, to delete the already half downloaded data
Throwing away the App Store .plist files
Enabling the App Store debug menu, and using it to navigate to the temporary downloads folder, and throwing away the half downloaded data, and all the plists found in there
Clearing cookies and cache within App Store.app
Resetting App Store.app using the Debug menu
I know my network connection is ok, as I've been downloading files bigger than this in Safari and Chrome today, and they have all completed successfully. I even tried bringing my MacBook to someone else's house, and attempting the download there, but it failed again, exactly as described as above. Does anyone else have problems like this, and if so, is there a solution?
Thanks in advance,
Padgeman

Go right to the source:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_app_store/using_mac_apple_store

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