SYSTEM CRASHED BOOTED INTO MAC OSX BASE SYSTEM WEBKIT HELP!!!!

MY SYSTEM CRASHED AFTER AN UPDATE. RAN A BACK TRACE LOG BECAUSE A GREY SCREEN BOOTED UP WITH ONLY SAFARI INSIDE. BACK TRACE LOG SHOWED A WEBKIT SAFARI OS X INSTALLED AND HAVE PERMISSIONS OVER MY STARTUP DISK REPLACING IT WITH THEIR "MAC BASE OS X SYSTEM" AS WELL AS MY RECOVERY HD TOO. HOWEVER I AM ABLE TO GET INTO DISK UTIL AND REPAIRED MY HD AND RECOVERY HD HOWEVER THE OTHER IS STILL THERE AND WILL NOT LET ME ERASE IT. IT STATES IN INFO OF THE DRIVE "NOT ALLOW OWNERS TO TURN OFF...YES". I AM IN THE SAFARI BROWSER NOW AFTER LEAVING DISK UTIL. DISK UTIL READ MY HD IS FIXED AND OK AND WILL BOOT HOWEVER I AM SCARED IT WILL ONLY BOOT INTO WHATEVER THIS WEBKIT MAC OS X BASE IS.

That's Mt. Lion's Recovery volume which you could have used to erase the working volume and do a clean install of Mt. LIon.  To get rid of it you may have to try to repartition the entire drive with Disk Utility. 
Otherwise, reboot with the Command+R keys held down to boot into the Recovery volume.  Once there run Disk Utility to again erase the working volume and then do an install of Mt. Lion. This method is much easier and quicker than doing it from the USB device.
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