Can I downgrade a new mac mini from 10.8 to 10.6?

Just purchased a new Mac mini as a filemaker development platform for work. It shipped with 10.8. About half-way through getting it all set up I realized that the Filemaker 11 software I'm using has older plugins, these plugins are only compatible up to OSX 10.6. Can I downgrade this machine to 10.6? Or can I just upgrade the plugins on this mac mini without impacting all the users of my database who have older platforms and older plugin versions?

If you have no plans to upgrade Filemake, then I suggest you export your database to a more "universal" format such as Tab Delimited or CSV. These are text formats that almost any other database program can import. Then you can move to a new DB application compatible with Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion contains the SQL database for which there are numerous frontend GUIs.

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