Mountain Lion download begins but stops after 10.4 mb.

I own a I Mac desktop purchased in late fall of 2009.  Yesterday, I purchased Mountain Lion(and was charged for the program) and have been attempting to download it since.  It starts out fine until it reaches 10.4 mb and then restarts again.  It does that for 5 consecutive times and then leaves the messages "unable to download, check your internet connection."  I spoke yesterday with Apple support and also had a tech person go over everything on my desktop to make sure it is compatible and running properly.  I am runing Snow Leopard now and have never had a problem with downloads.  ALSO, I can download any other app and it works perfectly.  I also contacted my internet provider, thinking there may be a problem downloading a program of that size, and he said there are now problems on that end either.  The Apple support person did say that a new update was just released for Mountain Lion, but that was the only thing that he could come up with.  Any suggestions?

Have you tried installing in Safe Mode ?
Restart holding the "shift" key.
(Expect it to take longer to start this way because it runs a directory check first.)

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