HT4718 Are there alternate ways to boot in recovery mode?

The original problem: 2007 era Macbook Pro display goes bad.
Solution: We bought a new macbook pro. It was time for an upgrade.
The opportunity: We decided to connect the old pro to an external display and use it in clamshell mode and set it up for the kids to use.
I attempted to delete my wife's user account, yet the machine still shows 88 gigs used when clearly the two new users I set up (one administrator) are not using so much. I thought if I could reinstall OSX that my problems would be solved. Not only am I not worried about losing data in a reinstall - I want to.
The current problem: I cannot boot this mac into recovery mode while it is in Clamshell.
I am using a wireless apple keypoard, but can really only boot up using the restart option as the power button is closed up in the clamshelled laptop. But when I do that it appears to me that the wireless keyboard is not connecting in time for the recovery mode to catch.
I thought the simple solution would be to open up the old beast and use the actual power button. Good news is that when I do this, it must boot into recover mode. Bad news is that evidently recovery mode does not allow mirroring of the display. So I cannot actually see my recovery mode. My external display is simply a secondary display - greyed out, and all I can do is wave the cursor back and forth.
So: Are there any alternate ways to boot into recovery mode?

Have you followed these instructions?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3131?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Edit; As far as the data you could either do a clean install, or use
OmniDisksweeper can help you find what's hogging your disk space.
Some of it is likely Local Snaphots from Time Machine
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4878

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