Lion was installed at the apple store, but I want to re-install it on the same computer

Basically,
the guy at the apple store installed lion then transfered all my data, but I wanted a fesh system... How do I re-install it so that I have a fresh system? Thank you

I posted this on another thread earlier today. May be helpful:
You can use the Recovery Partition already in place on your Macbook.
From Apple: http://www.apple.com/macosx/recovery/
Also, this might be helpful:
http://www.macworld.com/article/161088/2011/07/hands_on_lion_recovery_mode.html

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