What causes the Lion Installation Invalid Node error?

I've had two failed installs of Lion on my intel based IMAC. I have 4 gigs of mem, 300 gigs of space and OS 10.6.8. installed. Both installation attempts led to disk damaged messages with invalid node part of the error. Each time I reformatted the drive, installed Snow Leopard, let time machine bring my files back and updated my old SL files to 10.6.8 At the end, I boot off the cd and verify my hd. The entire process takes about 12 hours.
So ... do we know what actually causes the error so my next Lion install isn't a WAAP? (Wing and a Prayer) Would love to know what to avoid or what to do to protect the installation.
Thanks!

So .... After two failed installations with node erros, this time I elected to run the permissions verification and fix ... then I dl'd Lion anew (having moved the last copy to Trash.
And now, I write to you from Lion.
Thx!
Barb

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