System Restore on Helix after 8.1

I installed the Windows 8.1 preview on my Helix and would like to go back to the Lenovo build of WIndows 8. When I hit enter from bootup and go into recovery, I only receive the option to do a clean install of 8.1.
How can I rebuild my machine with the Lenovo Windows 8 build? My Helix came documentation free (and no license key on the unit.)
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I updated my Helix last week with the Windows 8.1 Pro RTM via my TechNet subscription. I used the recovery tools in Windows 8.1 to start fresh thinking it would take me back to 8.1 Pro. But what happened was it took me back to the Lenovo Windows 8.0 Pro as if I just took my Helix out of its shipping box. Which is where you're headed.
My reason for wanting to try a fresh Windows 8.1 install was due to the Lenovo Solution Center not behaving properly (missing the upper right X to close it) and the Lenovo System Update not able to run at all. Nor could I install it again - it would begin installing, offer to keep my logs of previous updates, but then the "Next" button after accepting the license agreement to start the actual install, did nothing - install window just sat there as if the button hadn't been pushed. I called support for help and was told at that time (last week) that Lenovo considered 8.1 a new operating system and that my call was out-of-scope - my Helix was shipped with 8.0 not 8.1. They connected to my Helix and got to the point to begin the install and the "Next" button didn't work for them either.
I'm thinking the uniqueness of Microsoft's new faster Windows release cadence and in-place updating hasn't filtered down through support personnel just yet. It's not a new OS version like going from Win7 to Win8. So I accepted their offer to send me an 8.0 re-install disk-set (that I can't really use - no USB DVD Burner with which to boot just yet) and I'd just wait for a few months for the hundreds of Helix owners to have updated their devices to 8.1, support employees trained and a company-wide "YES" to 8.1 becomes the conclusion. I'm still hopeful Lenovo will not only support 8.1 but will develop any new drivers needed in advance of the public release next year when 8.2 is released and so on. I'm not holding my breath though. It just that 8.1 is just so much better, it'd be a real shame if I can't run it fully my existing Helix.
I completed re-configuring my original Windows 8.0 programs again, but with new versions of both the Solution Center and System Update. I tried the 8.1 update again, with a slight improvement of Solution Center (the X was present, but many of the program features didn't work). And the System Update still wouldn't run or re-install and the same problem with the "Next" button broken. I figured it as a long-shot, but wanted to at least try to get the 8.1 features on it. Now I'm back to 8.0 again and in waiting mode with fingers crossed.
Have you been doing with your experiments with 8.1?

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