Hey,
I installed Bitcoin QT from here:
http://bitcoin.org/en/download. The download and installation were successful and the block chain download began. I lost power while this process was proceeding and when I rebooted the program no longer appears to resume the download appropriately. This is what the program currently looks like:
https://i.imgur.com/77gZL4Q.png The green bar tooltip states: "Catching up...processed 260338 blocks of transaction history..."
The problem is, I believe it has been stuck at this value since the program inappropriately exited. Uninstalling and reinstalling didn't seem to fix the issue (I did this twice). Also, forcing the program to do a "-rescan" didn't fix the problem.
Thanks!