What do I do now?

I recently installed OS X Lion on my iMac and now everything is frozen. Others have had videos and other apps causing the freeze, but I was in iPhoto. As described by others, the mouse is active but cannot activate any button on the frozen screen. The only way I can get out of the freeze is by shutting down, using the main power button. When I start up again, Lion takes me to the last opened page which, in my case, is the frozen page. I think this default (return to last open page) has something to do with my problem. I'd disable yours (Sysytem Preferences>General>bottom of list) if you haven't had a problem with Lion yet. When it hangs, it really hangs.
I accessed Apple's "Lion Recovery Page" using the keyboard combination "Command + R" as I re-started my Mac to download a fresh copy of Lion. While it was slow and I didn't always know if it was downloading it was, in fact, doing so. After some four hours, I was keen to start up my Mac with the new copy of Lion. Alas, within minutes I was frozen in the same place that I was four hours earlier. So, a fresh installation of Lion did absolutely nothing for me.
What do I do now?

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