OS X Lion downloaded but won't install?

I downloaded OS X Lion, took me 1.5 days. I have the Lion and arrow icon on the dock. I click on it. The installer launches and asks me to agree to terms and conditions, I agree and then it asks me to choos the disk where Lion will be installed but nothing happens: I can't choose the disk, I can't go forward. I can only go backwards where it asks me again to agree to terms and conditions. Talk about One Infinite Loop!
I have not been able to find proper help on apple.com and the technicians at my local Mac Store haven't a clue.
I have tried to re-download and it will not let me, arguing that Lion is already installed, which is not.
Please help!

hmm... that's strange.
What I did on my adventure was...
removed the installer from the dock, put it in the trash. restarted trying to get into my bootcamp partition, or I suppose the support guys wanted to make sure there wasn't something amiss with it.
I too could not "re-download" from the app store. They never did address this. The alt / option keys are the same.
After this I went into 10.6.8 again and got a similar error; but after I selected the disk to install on. it would say 'preparing to install'... 3 minutes, 2 minutes... 'will restart in 30 seconds' and then would error out saying 'please try again'. Initially they thought my installer was corrupt but it wasn't. After I unmounted the install image from the desktop it worked.
They mentioned that if you have a really large bootcamp partition they were seeing problems with that. Maybe try a reboot and hold down (option?) to get into the selection list for Mac / bootcamp, select the mac h/d and retry?
I don't know if this helps or not but my installer (whcih worked) is 12,034,297 bytes. the whole install shows a size of 3,802,959,872 (that's all the files/folders on the usb). I'd hate to see you go through the download again and run into the problem again. I'd say if you got the same size files it's a conflict with the installer.
HTH
Dave

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