Uninstallation of Mac OS X Lion and installation of OS X Snow Leopard

Good evening,
my question is about uninstallation of Mac OS X Lion back to Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I used to backup Time Capsule and i want to install the Time Capsule software, which I used while I had Snow Leopard. Now I can´t install the software because the OS X software version is to high. So I decided to install back the OS X Snow Leopard. When I opened the installation aplication it couldn´t be installed because the version of the installation aplication is to high. So I want to ask if there is any way to uninstall the OS X Lion and install back the Mac OS X Snow Leoprad?
Thanks for the anwser

Downgrade OS X Lion To Snow Leopard [Video How-To]
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I have a (White) 2007 MacBook, with a new 640 GB HD.
It has 2 partitions: a 40 GB running Snow Leopard ( I am a teacher and have no time - and desire - to substitute my AppleWorks DBs until this year ends) and a 600 GB running Lion.
I have an AIM mail account but I can´t use Mail, because I never know if the message was sended or not; AOL said that my configurations are right and that the problem is with their servers, but they not returned the solution.
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5) I tried several other times yesterday and today with no success.
Of course that I want my Lion back; but now the more important to me is to get my MacBook running my Snow Leopard account. I register all the data of my students - presences, absences and grades - directly on an AppleWorks DB file.
So, the big question is: how do I change the startup disk to Snow Leopard?.
My resources are: 1 iMac 800 MHz running Tiger; 1 Cube 450 MHz running Tiger; 1 FireWire cable (to access the MacBook in the Target Mode, which I will try next); 1 iPhone 3G and a never used 8 GB pen drive. There is a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard, that is not at home now but eventually could come today, I am not counting on this. It was bought in september of 2009 and I am not sure if it has a FireWire port.
I thank you for any help.
Best regards,
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