Mountain Lion Not Showing in Purchases (Need to Unhide)

I just stumbled across this and thought it might help other folks with multiple Mac's wanting to download Mountain Lion onto all.
If you successfully downloaded M.L. onto one of your Mac's, but are no longer seeing it available in "Purchases" you may need to do the following.
1. Launch App Store.
2. Click on "Store" then "View my Account (Your Apple ID).
3. Sign in to your account.
4. Click on "Unhide Hidden Purchases" (this might be "Updates"...I can't remember).
Mountain Lion will once again show up in the "Purchases" list on any Mac where the Apple ID used to purchase M.L. has been entered into the "Store" account in the App Store.
I tried the "Option/Purchases" suggestion I found elsewhere to no avail and then gave this a shot and it worked. Hope this spares others some stress.
-E

I'd like to hear Apple's answer to this.
If it's because there is some limitation with my computer let me know!
If it's because you don't want to distribute more copies of the OS; man up to your contractual obligation! As a shareholder in Apple I'll take reputation over short term $$.

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