Trouble re-downloading Lion

Question

My computer had crashed and the Geniuses at the Apple Store wiped it clean and set me up with Snow Leopard. Their instructions were to re-download Lion through my App Store and then continue on to Maverick. It's been 3 days of struggling to download Lion. It'll claim to need anywhere from 4 hours to 2 days to download the OS. About a half an hour into the download, it'll quit from an unexpected error. The only thing I have running at the time of the downloads has been Facebook.
I've tried resetting my airport/WiFi. I went into ~/Library/Application Support/App Store and deleted everything inside of it in hopes to kickstart the download. I tried pausing it and resuming. It's kind of frustrating the frick right out of me.

Answer 1

You are not alone, but I'm sure that is of little comfort.
If you qualify for Mavericks, you might consider upgrading to Mavericks.
You can verify your applications run under Mavericks here:  http://roaringapps.com/
OS X Mavericks: System Requirements
To install Mavericks, you need one of these Macs:
          ▪          iMac (Mid-2007 or later)
          ▪          MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
          ▪          MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later),
          ▪          MacBook Pro (15-inch or 17-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later)
          ▪          MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
          ▪          Mac mini (Early 2009 or later)
          ▪          Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
          ▪          Xserve (Early 2009)
Your Mac also needs:
          ▪          OS X Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard v10.6.8 already installed
          ▪          2 GB or more of memory  <-----personally I thing is way too low. I recommend a minimum of 4GB but 8GB is better
          ▪          8 GB or more of available space