How do you Stop Booting to System Recovery

I have a ThinkeCentre that boots to System Recovery Options. The hard drive was full and I cleared space and ran repairs. If I hit Enter on the BIOS splash screen I get the boot menu and hit F11 then the system boots the OS (Windows 7) and works fine.
My question is how do I stop the system from automatically booting into the System Restore Options and Boot the OS instead? Is there a flag that I can reset or something?
Thanks,
-Nathan

In Lion, you use the same keystroke to start and stop text-to-speech. By default it is set as Option-Esc, but can be changed in the Speech prefs pane in System Preferences. The behavior in Snow Leopard should be similar.
Edit - - Just confirmed via booting into 10.6.8 that the behavior in Snow Leopard is the same. Exception - there is no default setting for the start/stop keystroke, so one must entered in System Preferences > Speech > Text to Speech.

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