Weird Problem in Lion

Hi,
There is a strange problem on my Mac Book Pro. It is a late 2010 machine and came with Lion installed on it.
I found that the machine was hanging for some reason last two days, so I thought I will do a hardware test. I restarted the machine and this time instead of logging in as my user, I opted for the Guest user with safari only. After this I found out that the way to do hardware test was to use hold option d while booting. The hardware test did not report any issues. I had run the hardware test in the extensive test mode. After the test was complete, I restarted the machine and it straightaway went to the safari only mode and did not present me the usual login screen. And since than the machine automatically keeps going to the safari only mode without me doing anything. Since it opens the Mac utlilites with the recovery partition loaded, I also tried to install but it wouldn't do that and gave an error "
This copy of the Install Mac OS X Lion application is damaged"
I have also checked the harddisk for errors using diskutility. When I run Verify Disk Permissions, the first message I get is the following:
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired
Permissions differ on "System/Library/PreferencePanes/Displays.prefPane"; should be drwxr-xr-x; they are lrwxr-xr-x
there are more messages after this of permissions differ.
I ran Repair Disk Permissions and it gave me messages like Permissions repaired, but on the 2nd run some of them are still coming.
How can I get the original login screen back?
Thanks.

Hello, I seem to have resolved this.  I had to remove the folder by using the terminal (sudo rm -rf) then I could rename the External Drive.
Sorry if I jumped the gun by posting!

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