Mountain Lion Recovery Disk?

Is there a way to get a Montain Lion recovery disk?
Would reloading Mountain Lion erase any new data since I installed it?
If I use Time Machine to go back to when I first downloaded ML (and it worked well) will I lose any current settings or information?
Sorry for the inexperienced questions.... no matter how much I learn there is still more!
God bless and thanks!

You have a built-in Recovery Partition (hidden):
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4718
http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/
Reinstalling doesn't overwrite any files in your User's home folder, including applications. Some applications that put files into system file areas may have to be reinstalled.
You can choose exactly what to restore from Time Machine. The problem, of course, is knowing what to restore.
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/264620-restore-specific-f iles-time-machine-backup.html
I think your approach to this is not quite right. Can you tell us exactly what is wrong - maybe we can help you troubleshoot and fix it.

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