Upgrade to Win 7 and Vista Recovery CD

I am currently running Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit on a T61p, and am going to do a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit (onto a new hard drive).
In case the Windows 7 install is a complete failure, etc. I would like to be able to reinstall Windows Vista Ultimate as it was factory installed.
Will   [ThinkVantage --> Create Recovery Media] Recovery CDs allow a clean installation of the Windows Vista version that came with my Thinkpad originally? In other words, is the Recovery CD all that I will need in order to be able to install Vista (even without the service partition) ?
Thanks
Specs:
System
Manufacturer
LENOVO
Model
6459CTO
Total amount of system memory
3.00 GB RAM
System type
32-bit operating system
Number of processor cores
2
64-bit capable
Yes
Storage
Total size of hard disk(s)
87 GB
Disk partition (C
19 GB Free (87 GB Total)
Media drive (D
CD/DVD
Media drive (F
CD/DVDCD/DVD
Graphics
Display adapter type
NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M
Total available graphics memory
1527 MB
      Dedicated graphics memory
256 MB
      Dedicated system memory
0 MB
      Shared system memory
1271 MB
Display adapter driver version
7.15.11.7693
Primary monitor resolution
1680x1050
DirectX version
DirectX 10

The recovery media (select recovery discs should be 3 dvds) will allow you to restore any hdd to the factory condition, in other words it will be like when just got the laptop with the OS/drivers and recovery partition installed.
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