Reinstall of Lion Failed...progress bar frozen...what recourse?

Multiple system freezes lead me to a Lion reinstall on my mid-2007 iMac with 4gb ram. I downloaded Recovery Disk Assistant to external drive and went through reinstall process. All went normally until Lion began to install. Progress bar froze at 6 minutes remaining the first attempt and 24 minutes remaining the second attempt. Am I screwed or what? I don't appear to have any options except continued attempts at installing.

My reinstall saga did have a somewhat happy ending. I took Linc's advice and went to bed with 24 minutes remaining on the frozen progress bar. Upon arising (8 hrs later) I checked my Mac to find 24 minutes remaining. I forced shutdown and restarted again. This time (3rd attempt) after only about 35 total minutes, the install was 'successful.' I put that successful in quotes because it took 3 more restarts for my Mac to successfully load.
I believe the moral of the story is don't give up too quickly on your Mac. When at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again.

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