I contacted HP support earlier and they are sending me, what i believe to be, an OEM Win7 installation disc, however with me having no COA i feel i will still have the same problem when i try to come and activate using the HP OEM key that i pulled off the original install using Magic JellyBean.
So i'm going to have to contact HP again, request recovery discs, reinstall Win7 with the bloatware installed. Pull the key and cert off from that install. Format, install Win 7 then apply the key and cert? Sheesh! not the simplest of procedures
I'll check the bios tomorrow and see if i can find any recovery discs in the trash although i dont even remember if the laptop came with them, i just know it had the recovery partititions, which i formatted when installing the new install of Windows.