Factory Reset not an option anymore

Hi, I am posting in the hope that someone might know better what exactly is going on with my brand new R61. My problem is that Factory Reset is not an option anymore in Rescue and Recovery. Short history of events: Laptop came with Vista. Shrank its partition with Disk Management. Booted from XP64 setup disk, installed it to new partition created in the unallocated space. Discovered no drivers from Lenovo, wanted to do a factory reset. ThinkVantage button didn't take me anymore to the RnR environment, instead it showed me a "Startup List" of some sort. Used Lenovo Recovery Repair to fix MBR. Blue Button still doesn't work, but F11 does, it goes into RnR. However there is no Factory State Reset option under Restore system. I don't have Recovery disks, cause their creation failed. Any ideas?

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