Need to repair boot partition but don't have 'Recovery HD'

I was doing a routine maintenence and Disk Utility is telling me I have a few block counts askew. Everything seems to be working fine ( on the surface of things ) but like to be anal and would like to do a repair.
However, I don't have a Recovery partition and the App store has decided that I haven't purchased Lion - although I did, I can show you the bank statement. I installed a new hard disk not so long back ( I guess this is the reason why the App store decided I didn't purchase Lion!? ) and reinstalled from a Time Machine backup - it wasn't seemless but I'm techy enough, to make it work, just not a big fan of spending my days learning terminal commands.
I have a mid 2009 MPB so can't do internet recovery, the Recovery Disk Assistant won't let me create a Recovery Disk on an exernal drive since, yes you've guessed it, I don't have a Recovery Partition.
Am quite happy to reinstall as long as it doesn't compromise my data but can't find the 'restore my purchases' button on the app store - else if there is a less than obtuse ( and none-sketchy ) method of creating the partition HD or if someone could tell what I'm missing that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Mike

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4928 You may have "hidden" your purchase. You can unhide it using those instructions. If you can't "restore" or "unhide" them, contact Apple Customer Support and tell them you purchased OS X "Lion" in the App Store and then they'll help you from there.

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