joeyjojo, I think you're getting confused between the first 'press r' option, which is the Recovery Console, and the second 'press r' option, which is the true Windows Repair feature. This second option is the one that we are both referring to.
Going through the 'install process again', as you suggest, will either
a) create a second Windows installation on the same partition, with a duplicate Windows folder and set of O/S system files, providing that the exisitng file system is left intact, or
b) completely format the hard disk and delete all of mattbill's files and programs if the option to format the system partition is selected.
Mattbill should select the second option to 'press R' and go through with a Repair installation of Windows, as I originally stated.