No recovery function on lion...

HELP!!
I installed lion server and must have changed permissions formyself somehow.... dont ask me how!!! No  my user status is standard, and theres no Admin account when I check account in preferences.... when I try to launch server, it tell me server can only run with 10.7.... but it isalready installed with lion 10.7.1 ???
Can do anything as theres no admin account....
I tried lion recovery by restarting with command-R but it keeps going to my login name instead of launching the utilities...
Dont know what to do now!!! Anyone with help of full recovery.... I have full back-ups so everything can be wiped out if needed... just want to start from scratch again...

good point, buth#4
another trick you can use with Server is to hold down the Shift key as you start up. This does one pass of Disk Repair, then boots up with minimal extensions. In older versions of Server, the Server extensions were not included, just the standard Mac OS extensions got loaded. So if something in Server is causing the problem, it's turned off.

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