Mountain Lion Reinstall has been stuck here for hours?

I decided to reinstall mountain look because my (mid-2009 MacBook Pro) has been a little sluggish. I erased the hard drive from recovery and started the reinstall. The installer said it would be at least 8 hours so I let it go over night. This morning when I woke up the installer was stuck on "Downloading additional components. Your computer will restart automatically." But the blue install bar is full (all blue) and the time says 14 hours and 36 minutes remaining. The computer itself is not frozen (there is no beach ball) what should I do? Thanks

Try resetting your PRAM/NVRAM according to these instructions:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

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