Stuck in Lion installation

Hi there,
Purchased Lion this morning, downloaded it, installed it. It got going and kernel panicked everytime it got to about 75% through. Tried clearing PRAM. This brought me to the Lion recovery suite ("Mac OS X Utilities"). I can no longer get back, and it kernel panics when I try to install. When I attempt to recover the disk, it says that it verifies. Out of desperation, erased the disk (nothing important on there). I am still stuck, and it kernel panics when I try to install.
What are my options? Am I stuck with Snow Leopard?

phew, just got everything back to "normal"
I turned off my mac for about 10 minutes and then started it up again. Also I think this time i inserted my snow leopard disc at just the right time, not too early not too late.
Whatever it was, when i went to "Startup Disk" the snow leopard disc showed up!
So then I went to disk utility after booting the snow leopard installer for the first time. It said it repaired one thing but then stopped and said it couldnt repair it and told me to back up and reformat.
Then I just ran a simple verify again and it said the HD was "OK" - it gave me a clean bill of health?!?!
So then I went to startup disk again, and was finally able to get out of limbo and back to good old snow leopard.
Now I'll install Lion, but taking all cautions beforehand...maybe i'll wait a few days first though.
Thanks to everyone.

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Whatever it was, when i went to "Startup Disk" the snow leopard disc showed up!
So then I went to disk utility after booting the snow leopard installer for the first time. It said it repaired one thing but then stopped and said it couldnt repair it and told me to back up and reformat.
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I'm a little far away to send my Macbook to a customer service.
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:S
VR

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