Steps to install on second machine

Hi... Last night I purchased, downloaded and installed OS X Lion onto an external usb hard drive that was (before installing Lion) an exact clone (used Super Duper) of my main Hard Drive on my MacBook Pro... I want to run it for a while from this external drive before I decide if I am ready to commit it to my main hard drive on the MacBook Pro...
I think I am allowed to install Lion on up to two additional drives with this one purchase??? Do I have that correct??? But the bigger question is the exact procedure to follow when I do decide to load Lion on to my main MacBook Pro's hard drive... I booted into that drive which is still running OS X 10.6.8, went to the App Store and clicked on "Purchases"... I see there the OS X Lion icon and over at the right I see a button that says INSTALL... When I am ready to click that button in a few days, what will happen??? I assume it has to download the entire 3+ GByte installer file again, right??? And then would it take me right in to the installer like it did when I first installed this on to my cloned external usb drive???
It's this second install that will be more important to me than the first and I just want to make sure I understand what should happen... Any feedback would be much appreciated...
thanks.... bob...

Thanks much... I downloaded it again last night to put it on my second machine and just prior to doing the install, I found it in /Applications like you said and saved it to a backup drive just in case I need it again later... thanks for the help... bob...

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