Mac OS X 10.7 Recovery OS used too soon after enabling FiileVault 2

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If you use Recovery OS Disk Utility, or any comparable utility, too soon after enabling FileVault 2 — before entering a passphrase at the EFI loginwindow — then without a prompt to unlock the volume, an attempt to verify or repair may produce a report such as the one below.
Verifying volume “a”
Checking storage systemChecking volume.
disk1: Scan for Volume Headers
Invalid Volume Header @ 0: incorrect block type
Invalid Volume Header @ 58855587328: invalid field value
disk1 is not a CoreStorage volume
Error: Storage system verify or repair failed.
Also, the required startup volume may not be listed for startup purposes. 
In this situation: do not be alarmed by the report.
Restart the system. At the EFI loginwindow, which should appear within seconds of the startup chime, enter the passphrase.

Step one is to ensure that you have a bootable backup/clone or a verified Time Machine backup of 10.7.3.
Step two is to manually download and install the 10.7.3 COMBO update.
Step three, if these are successful, is to manually download and install the 10.7.4 COMBO update, repair permissions, and restart.
These should fix the problem with the installer. As for the games, i've not a clue since I don't run any on my computers.

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