Re-download app store purchase. Installed button is all that's there.

Hi,
I just purchased OS X Lion using the App Store. The download failed after some time and now I'm stuck without the download and no way to download it again. I visited the 'Purchased' page on the App Store but that does NOT have a link to force download the app again. All i see is an 'installed' button next to the OS X Lion icon and it doesn't do anything.
Thanks,
Seeta

I see this is an old thread but nonetheless I'll post here to report I'm having the same problem as reported by gweiss on 11 Oct 2011.
The Option key has absolutely no effect.
I've done a clean install of Mountain Lion on my server and am trying to download the current copy of Server that I purchased a few months ago. The App Store reports "Installed" but Serve is NOT installed. Fortunately I had saved a copy of my original downloaded Server app so I'm not totally unable to proceed.
All the web pages that report using the Option key to force redownload purchases are not helpful.

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