I am trying to re install snow leopard but i keep getting an error saying unable to  reinstall

I am trying to revert back from Lion to Snow Leopard as i am not that happy with Lion yet.
Everytime i place the Snow Leopard DVD in & restart & press "C" after around 5 mins i get a screen propt saying unable to reinstall apple operating system
The disc play fine normally
N66

Do you have another drive you can install SL on? If so, you can try installing SL on a 2nd drive, boot from that drive and use Migration Assistant to move your Apps and Data back from your Lion disk. I have not tried this, but see no reason why it should not work.

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