Boot from flash, then run Diskwarrior

   Every so often, I want to run Diskwarrior for directory repair – either for maintenance, or after a hard crash – on my 2011 MacBook Pro. Diskwarrior falls out of date everytime Apple updates the OS. I'm currently running Lion. I downloaded the free updater to 4.4, (I have a 4.2) but it still does not boot my mac.
    I (sort of) solved the problem by installing a full-blown Lion OS on an external firewire hard-drive, booting from it and then running Diskwarrior. Older versions of DW will do directory repair, they just aren't bootable if out of date.
    What I want to do is to boot from a Flash drive, and then run Diskwarrior.
    I have created a bootable flash drive, which works, but boots into the Mac OS X Utilities window (the same window you get when you boot into Recovery mode. Even though I'm booted from the flash drive, this window does not let me access Diskwarrior. Help.
P.S. I also have a 2T Time Capsule attached, can I put a copies of Lion and Diskwarrior on that to solve the problem?

Instead of the instructions specified, use the Disk Utility or another product to clone your existing system to a drive large enough to hold it, or install a minimal Mac OS X system onto that drive. The Time Capsule can't be used for this purpose.
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