I need to re-download lion

Hi, I had a disk crash, apple replaced my disk and reinstalled Lion - but, I restored my desktop from a backup drive which apparently was OSX 10.6.
So, apparently, I have all lion apps, but they won't run on the older version of OSX, so I can't use appstore or any other applications
How do I get a clean copy of Lion to reinstall
Note: I cannot run the "appstore" application as it's the wrong version...
Help!!!

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