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I need to restore factory settings on my T60. I have no disc and F11 or the thinkadvantage button doesn't seem to take me to the correct path. Am I missing something?

If you still have the original installation, this may help you make restore media. If you then image those as .iso files, you can back THEM up for future use or to help other Thinkpad owners whose drives have died.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=97992

I guess I need to be a little more detailed...

I just inherited a Levano T60 Dual core Thinkpad.

It was used as a demo laptop and is hosed with the typical spyware and file corruption, so I want to do a system restore and set it back to factory defaults.

I should just be able to hold down the blue "ThinkVantage" button when I turn it on to get the typical enhanced environment for choosing pre-main OS activities, instead, I get a plain black screen with 3 options:
ESC to boot normally
F1 to enter the BIOS
F12 to choose a temporary startup device

ESC boots directly into the OS.
F1 enters the BIOS where their are a few tools for diagnostics, but no system restore.
F12 prompts me with either boot to HD (and back to Windows), CD, or LAN

How can I restore this thing?

You obviously don't have the restore partition.
You need to get a set of (XP) Restore CDs/DVDs.
Ask for them in our Marketforum.
Your COA is for XP, but W7 runs great on such a machine, especially if you would put in an SSD.
You'd need to buy W7.