Mountain Lion upgrade hanging, Launchpad shows "waiting"

I'm a new Mac user. Am upgrading my OS X Lion to Mountain Lion on my new iMac. Got the redeem code, entered it, Launchpad opened and showed the download had started, using WiFi so progress was slow. Walked away. Came back 20 mins later, computer had slept, and there was no Wifi connection and no Mountain Lion download showing in LaunchPad. I rebooted my iMac and my modem and plugged my Mac in directly to modem (thinking LAN would be fasting that WiFi). Went to Purchases in Mac App Store and Mountain Lion showed "an error has occured" in red. Didn't say what error. I went to Mountain Lion App page, hit Download, and Launchpad opens again, with ML icon, but it just shows "waiting." No progress. Ummmm...help? How do I get Mountain Lion to install?

Not sure how to delete this comment. Un-marked it as a question. Went back to App Store Purchases and saw it was waiting for me to sign in and Click Resume. Downloading now. Nevermind.

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