HELP!!!!! I CANNOT RE-INSTALL LION ON A USED IMAC!!!!!!!!!!

Without being vulgar, I am EXTREMELY ANGRY right now because of this as a used iMac I just purchased is a BRICK thanks to Apple and their greedy big brother B.S.
I purhcased a used iMac with OS X Lion pre-installed by the former owner. I do not have the original Leopard discs that originally came with the mac.
I NEED TO DO A CLEAN INSTALL OF LION. I do not want to get into a debate as to why / why not I just want to do a clean install.
I CANNOT RE-INSTALL FROM THE RECOVERY PARTITION because it says this install of Lion was not purchased with my Apple Account.
I CANNOT DOWNLOAD AND PURCHASE LION MYSELF because the App store says Lion is already installed.
THERE IS NO WAY WHATSOEVER FOR ME TO DO A CLEAN INSTALL OF LION NOW.
Apple has become the absolute worst company in the world because of the way they treat their customers.
I honestly don't even CARE about paying another $30 to them for an OS that was ALREADY PURCHASED so that I can do what I want with it but they WILL NOT EVEN LET ME DO THAT!!!!
What the **** am I supposed to do now?  I literally have a BRICK that I cannot use until I am able to do a clean install of the OS and set it up the way I want to.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!!!

Thanks. I actually got to the step of making my bootable DVD and it is in the process right now (had to set the speed to 2x because it kept failing LOL)...
I am about to find out the answer but if I boot into the Recovery HD partition on the lion install I am trying to over-write will I be able to run Disk Utility on that partition to wipe the main partition of the drive?
I don't have a clone but I have a 4GB USB drive I can probably make into a bootable drive and I have an external hard drive (the internal drive from my old G5 tower in a case) hooked up that still boots into Tiger I believe. I never changed any files on it when I yanked it out of my old tower when it died and I sold it (I back up some files to it here and there but keep it plugged in to access old files until I get my lazy but motivated to back it all up and re-format it).
I vaguely remember booting into it by mistake on my macbook pro when I had it plugged in before but I could be mistaken.
I think in a worst case scenario I could boot from that drive and use its disk utility to wipe my iMac clean and then boot from the Lion DMG to install a factory-clean install.
Yes, I am not trying to over-write the current Lion install on the machine. I made a mistake somewhere along the way when I was renaming the primary user account and associated home directory and rather than piddle with it, since the lion install is completely clean with no software or anything else I wanted to keep I THOUGHT it would be faster to just do a fresh out of the box installation.
I've done this in the past on my other macs when it made sense and didn't interrupt my workflow and I used to do it routinely on my Windows boxes just to get a fresh start and weed out the adware etc.
I just have a thing about using someone else's computer from where they left off vs. having a fresh out of the box install where I know that everything is clean and if any problems arise they are my fault instead of the previous owner :-)
Thanks for the info. I will have to repay in kind if I see some posts up here I can answer for people once this is over!

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