How can I uninstall Mavericks?

How can I uninstall Mavericks?  I was using Mountain Lion happily.

You can go back but it is difficult.  What problems are you having?  Maybe there are solutions.
OS X Mavericks: Revert to a previous OS X version
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14176
Mountain Lion (10.8.5) http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion
10.7:  http://store.apple.com/us/help/downloadable_software#MacOSX
Purchase Snow Leopard (10.6) disks:  http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
Reverting back from Mavericks:  https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6162

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              AirPlay: Version: 1.9 - SDK 10.9
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              2.36 GB          Inactive RAM
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