Problems relaunching Lion OS on secondhand mac book air.

We cannot get Lion to download as although the air has been reset when we get to the Lion download it asks for the original purchase id which we do not have.  Does this mean the computor needs deauthorising by the previous owner or are we doing something wrong?

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