Lion Downloads Afresh For Every Install

I discovered to my horror that despite already having Lion installed on a brand new Macbook Air, reinstalling the system triggers the download from scratch of the whole OS!!!  Isn't this defeating the object of a recovery partition?  Instead of installing my system, I'm now watching it download ...slowly.  It started at 7 hours and is now down to 2.
Apple - Please recognise the realities of the World you're working in.  Individuals do not have lease lines and cannot accomodate 4gig downloads to reintall their operating system.  Besides, why would they want to?  Why isn't it issued on a flash drive or something?  Daft.
More insanity from Cupertino.  Every time I use Lion it makes me want to buy a PC.  Grrrrr.  Snow Leopard was fantastic. 

Why are you booting to the Recovery partition? Why dont you boot into the normal partition and use your Mac?

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