Will recovering lion from recovery hd wipe my personal documents, such as iPhoto library etc?

I feel that after two days of debugging, my only option is to reinstall lion. I need to know if this will wipe my personal documents. Can anyone tell me?
I will be reinstalling lion from the lion recovery hd.
Thanks.

I probably should have elaborated in the first instance, but I have said it all in another thread.
The short version is that my osx 10.7.2 has become more and more corrupted over the past few days.
I can log in but the system is so unresponsive that it is unusable.
I have booted from a lion installation on a FireWire drive and once I am on, I can browse to and see all the files on my hd with no problem HOWEVER despite being able to see them, access them etc.... I can't copy them to anywhere. Keeps copying a small part of the file and then stopping with a error -36
Hence the reason I was asking if I could recover the os without backing up.

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