Need to do a clean re-install...BUT...

Due to numerous problems which I have not got a resolution too (see post about filevault error) and after going to the apple store (who suggested I do a clean reinstall of Lion) I am about to do a re-install. But, here are the problems:
1) I'm on a 4 year old Macbook Pro, so I don't have Disk Recovery option on my Mac with Lion
2) I've updated to Lion 10.7.1 so going into the App Store and 'option' clickin on Lion under purchases, then clicking 'install' doesn't allow me to re-install Lion as it says 'you have a newer version of this app, please move to trash before re-installing'..which of course is impossible.
3) I have tried on 2 different USB sticks to use Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, but, after setting up the USB stick as per directions, whenever I reboot and then select the USB recovery stick, it doesn't work and just starts up the normal startup disk..not sure what's going on there.
So...what can I do?
I have my drive cloned and TM backups on an external drive..but I'm not sure if that's going to help....
Any guidance is VERY appreciated!
thank you

Ok..now a problem.
I've now got a question mark on start up mode. BUT, if I boot using my external 'clone' HD I can boot fine. But now, when I try to hold down the option key, the recovery partition isnt there anymore. Now all i want is my cloned drive on my Mac...but I don't know how to do this! resarting it and holding down option does nothing but sits at a grey screen.
I have my external drive which is partitioned into two: Time Machine backups, and a clone (which works fine). I deally, I'd love to have my most recent Time Machine backup back on...My wife's MacBook is also running Lion.
HELP!

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