Thoughts on Win 7 Ultimate Install for House Party (around 10/10 or so)

Hi everyone,
I am hosting a House Party for some friends and will get Win 7 Ultimate shipped to me on about 10/10/2009 --- I have a T61, 4GB RAM, Intel Core2Duo CPU T7300 @ 2 GHz --- I have a backup of my files and email, so I want to wipe the hard drive COMPLETELY --- If anyone has some suggestions for my best course of action, I would appreciate it...
Some considerations....
1) I'll have the retail version of Win7 Ultimate about 10 days earlier than the official release but Lenovo won't have official drivers for Win 7 until 10/22/2009 ---
2) I really love how Lenovo has the recovery option and would pay to have that for my Win 7 install -- but, I don't know if that will be available or not --- any thoughts on whether we can purchase that after Win 7 is released?
3) I don't mind wiping out the recovery/backup drive --- just need to know how to do it
4) I have bookmarked the beta Win 7 driver page and can copy files to a flashdrive ---
So, any thoughts from the experts here on how best to wipe my current system, install the Win 7 Ultimate and the beta drives, etc., from Lenovo that are available on or about 10/10/2009 would be REALLY APPRECIATED ---
Thanks!

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