After unproper shutdown won t start

I unproperly switched off the computer using the botton... So now everytime I start it, I get to the OS X Utilities page... I ran the Disk repair and the permissions did get repaired but still when I restart the computer, I get back to that same utilities screen... Please help this is driving me crazy, I can not find any mention of this type of problem on Google.....

To be more precise, the window I automatically get to after starting the MacBook is called "Mac OS X Utilities".
In this window there is a pop up that appears automatically with the following options :
1) " Restore from Time Machine Back Up "
-> I don t think I ever did a Time Machine Back Up although my disk is almost full of work data... I know, stupid...
2) " Reinstall Mac OS X "
-> How do I do that? I am travelling and don t have the installation disk but need the computer to work...
3) " Get Help Online "
-> Where they basically don t tell me from which of the following options to choose from... how come??!!...
a) Repair Your Disk
-- which I did, permissions got repaired, but still goes to "Mac OS X Utilities" after restart...
b) Reinstall Mac OS X Lion
-- which brings me back to the question above...
c) "Use Time Machine.."
d) "Erase and reinstall Mac OS X Lion"
-- which I definitely don t want to do, cos I don t want to lose all my data...
4) " Disk Utility "
-> Which I already did as stated above, permissions got repaired but still geting to that "Mac OS X Utilities" window...

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