Can I revert to Snow Leopard? Lion took my Office

I have two Macs - one an iMac, the other a laptop MacBook Pro.
Both came with and run well on Snow Leopard 10.6.6
I downloaded OS X Lion for the laptop and lost my Office 2004 and Parallels 6.
Can I revert to a Backup from pre-Lion?  Do I need to do a clean install and lose all my downloaded apps  eg Pages?
My iMac is as I want but it is frequently monopolised by She Who Must Be Obeyed who uses it alongside her work-from-home computer.

Hello:
"She who must be obeyed"  That broke me up - TY for the chuckle! 
Anyway, the way I would proceed would be to restore the system from either a Time Machine bakup or a bootlable clone.  I don't think you would be able to reinstall OS X 10.6 on a system that has already been updated to OS X 10.7.
Barry
P.S.  I encountered the Office 2004 issue myself.  I decided that Office 2011 was not worth $150, so I moved to iWork.  iWork included a word processing program (Pages) which is fully compatible with Microsoft's Word.  I like it better, but that is just my own reaction.

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