Can I get BOOTABLE recovery media for my satellite l650?

Question

Headache Introduction:  I'm an IT professional with moderate support and system build experience. I bought a Toshiba laptop 6 weeks ago that is suddenly VERY messed up.  I start it up, the "starting windows" screen appears, hangs, then reboots. Upon reboot, it tries to enter system recovery, which merely leads to a black screen with a cursor and no options (waiting doesn't make them appear either).  Windows won't completely load, safe mode won't load, system recovery hangs, and holding down "0" to get to the boot partition still results in the machine trying to load windows, then it hangs, etc., wash, rinse, repeat...
OS Reinstallation seems necessary here, but what with Toshiba's AWESOME decision to no longer include bootable recovery media with their products, it seems I'm stuck with a 6 week old, $550 paper weight. I followed the instructions to make recovery DVDs (5 of them), but they don't seem to be bootable (even when i set my BIOS to boot from optical, it still eventually goes to "starting windows", hangs, etc.).
Toshiba wants me to send the laptop back for repair, which will take a month, and likely be necessary again X months from now when the machine inevitably hits a similar roadblock. I'm a fairly knowledgable nerd, and the prospect of being tethered to Toshiba anytime things get rocky is frankly unacceptable.  Simply put, I WANT MY BOOTABLE OS INSTALLATION MEDIA!  This is ESSENTIAL to repairing a truly troubled machine.  It's like they sold me a car, locked the hood shut, and now I have to ship it back to the factory for an oil change...
My question:  Should my self-made recovery discs even be bootable?  Is the recovery media sold on this site  bootable (I ordered them anyway...)?  Must I buy a SECOND copy of Windows 7 to get a bootable recovery option? I WANT MY BOOTABLE MEDIA BAAACK!!! (Sorry for shouting.)
Help?

Answer 1

1 Shut down and turn off your computer.
2 Do one of the following:
If your recovery files are on DVDs, insert the first recovery
DVD into your optical disc drive.
If your recovery files are on a USB flash drive, connect the
USB flash drive to your computer.
3 Turn on your computer. When the initial screen displays, press
F12.
The boot menu displays.
4 Using the arrow keys, select the DVD option or the USB Flash
option, depending on which type of media you are using, and
then press Enter.
5 A warning screen appears, stating that when the recovery is
executed all data on your internal storage drive will be deleted
and rewritten. Click Yes to continue.
6 When the Toshiba Recovery Wizard opens and the Selecting a
Process screen displays, select Recovery of Factory Default
Software and then click Next.
7 Select one of the following options:
 Recover to out-of-box state (recommended recovery
method)—If you want to recover the original factory
image
 Recover without changing the hard drive partitions—
If you want to recover the C: partition only, leaving other
partitions you have created intact
Recover to a custom size partition—If you want to
recover the C: drive to its out-of-box state and specify a
custom size for the C: drive. Note: This option deletes all
other partitions from the drive.
8 Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the recovery
process.
When the process is complete, a message displays indicating
that the drive has been recovered.
9 Press any key on the keyboard to restart the computer.
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