I had sort of the same issue where it hung up as I was trying to update the installer, got half way through dowload and just stopped. I waited about an hour before giving up. So I quit but now I had nothing! Clicking the XLN icon just would go round and round. Lucky I still had the last installer in my download folder.
I ran that and this time it updated ,, very slowly. It took a few hours to update everything.
It might be because of the update to both the on line installer and AD2 that the servers are taxed out.
Bonus was I clicked the Register tab and found I had 3 kit pieces I hadn't claimed and a whole kit!
Turns out I got four kits, 1 with Professional and 3 with Splat. So I forgave XLN for having a buggy update interface.