Cannot install lion 10.7.4 on my harddrive

I've just purchased and completed the downloading of Lion 10.7.4 to my MacBook Pro (2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - RAM 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3 with current system Snowleopard 10.6.8).
Problem: I cannot install Lion to my harddrive. My Mac HD (which is the only harddrive on the computer) is greyish and a message appears saying: "This harddrive is used for Time Machine safety copies" (translated from Swedish), which is not so - as far as I know. I obviously can't choose the Mac HD for installing.
(I have a Freecom 1 TB harddrive which I use for safety-copying. I recently made a full system backup to the Freecom using Disk Utilities using the Source and Target in "Re-create". (Source = my Mac HD on the MacBook Pro, Target = my Freecom external harddrive).)
Look forward to getting some help in this matter!
Thanks!
Best regards,
Marie Fredriksson Karvelas
Sweden

First we need to know which one of the 9 different models of MacBook you have. To see which model you have go to the Apple in the upper left corner and select About This Mac, then click on More Info and then System Report. When System Profiler comes up check the Model Identifier and post it back here.

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