Booting into Recovery mode

While this is a newbie question... I at least did attempt to find the answer before asking... so thanks in advance for the assistance.

I was given a droid 2 to exchange out the blackberry storm I had as a very nice Christmas present (I must of been a good boy sometime last year). Motorola/Verizon when I went to get the phone activated I was asked if I wanted the phone rooted and tethering set up, which I did.

Having the phone for a week I'm about ready to start tinkering, but I can't seem to get the phone to go to Recovery mode, I've powered down... held down the "x" and the power button and all I get is the green droid with a triangle above it with an exclamation point in the middle of it... requiring a battery pull to bring the phone back to life.

I've tried to hold the "x" and power button on the whole time... just the "x", a couple different things but still no joy. I'm just trying to get the basics down prior to playing a bit more...

So besides holding my tongue wrong why can't I boot into Recovery mode?

 

Thanks for this reply nibblit... works like it should...

I take it if I used the wipe data/factory reset it kills everything I've already done to the phone ... or does it wipe data and install the update.zip on the sdcard? thus installing the backed up files I have on the sdcard? (I have been using titanium to back up)

 

Kiosk at the mall... guess he hacks phones on the side for a few extra funds, I didn't know much about droids prior to me getting this phone, only touched the penguin once briefly on a desktop, so my wife told him to do it when I transfered numbers.