Purchase Mountain Lion for network installation

Hi I've been having freezing/lockup issues with my iMac (mid 2007). It is currently running Lion 10.7.5
I had it into the Genius bar, they checked the hardware and said it was good, the issue was coming from 'one of my files' on my backup. (I had restored from a Time Machine backup).
So, I am trying to run a network install to do a 'clean' install of Mountain Lion, but it says I haven't purchased it yet and won't let me proceed with the install. Seems like a simple question, but how do I purchase Mountain Lion so I can do a network install without being on my iMac?
If I can do a network install, then I can troubleshoot the backup files and have a known fresh starting point if I need to reimage.
Any thoughts or pointers appreciated.

I will try that again, and post the results. Suffice it to say I have done quite a bit of troubleshooting and tried various things. At this point I would just like to be able to get back to a clean image and then troubleshoot which files on my backup may be contributing to the issue. If anyone else has ideas on how to purchase ML without using my iMAC please let me know - I can get it to run for about 5 minutes (when I restore from a TM backup) but then it just freezes or generates Kernel errors. Genius bar told me all the hardware checked out.

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I have been reading through the internet without finding any answers other than i need to purchase mountain Lion with my apple id, and i honestly just want to purchase it ASAP.
To purchase it, i understand i need to use another mac, in that case i just borrow my dads macbook air, and i tried entering Appstore, but there's no sign of any place to purchase mountain lion.
i also understand that this might have something to do with the drive.
Please do give me some advice, since i have no idea of my next move.
Ps. the seller i bought the machine from, have dissappeared......

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Machine Model: MacBookPro7,1
Name: MacBook Pro (Mid 2010 13 inch)
ModelCode: mbp_13_mid_10
Family name: A1278
Model Number: MC375
Group1: MacBook
Group2: Pro
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CPU speed: 2.66GHz
Screen size: 13 inch
Screen resolution: 1280x800 pixels
Colour: Aluminium
Production year: 2010
Production week: 39 (October)
Production number: 5162 (within this week)
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2. Get a USB flash drive that is at least 8 GBs. Prep this flash drive as follows:
a. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
b. After DU loads select your flash drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left
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c. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one.
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At a Genius Bar appointment yesterday, we determined that I needed to go to Mountain Lion from Lion. I purchased Mountain Lion at the Bar, and paused the install so that I could resume from home. Now I can't find it to resume. Not in Downloads. ?????

When I upgraded to Lion, my Parallels stopped working and I got a Bootcamp error message. It had worked fine for the prior year. I upgraded to Parallels 7. No luck. At the Genius Bar, the Genius uninstalled Bootcamp. No luck. I still get "The Boot Camp partition /dev/diskOs4 used by Hard Drive 1 is missing."
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The "Geniuses" (and I use that word in sarcasm) at the Bar are lying to you. Upgrading from Lion to Mt Lion will not fix whatever problems you are having. In fact it will most likely make them worse.
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Purchase Mountain Lion for network installation

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