Advise needed with New Mac OS releases.

Hi,
I'm new to the Mac world, and having a lot of difficulty follow these posts to try and fix the many problems I have encountered since upgrading to SL. Is SL a typical release for Mac? It seems I should have waited for more fix releases, to be available before upgrading, but the conversion from my PC to my Macbook in July went so well and Leopard was operating flawlessly for my needs that I just went ahead and upgraded to SL.
What now, how long before Apple will fix all these problems. This is worse, at least, for me then when I upgraded from XP to Vista, which for a lot of PC users at the time was a disaster. I fell back to XP and and never returned to Vista. I eventualy bought my MacBook instead, and now I'm in a similar situation with no experience...
Because of my inexperience with the Mac system I'm afraid to try and fall back to Leopard and risk making my situation even worse. What if Time Machine fails to get back all my data
after Clean install of Leopard.
Any advise will be so much appreciated. With all the experience out there I'm trying to get a feeling of is it best to stay with SL a wait for the fixes, or chance going back to Leopard, until a stable better functioning version of SL is available. For a while there I thought all my computer problem were behind me as my Mac and leopard were working so reliably, and smoothly. I guess being an early adopter of any new OS is not a good thing unless there is some real need, which there was not in my case.

HI,
*"For a while there I thought all my computer problem were behind me as my Mac and leopard were working so reliably, and smoothly."*
It's difficult to help you if you don't tell us exactly what's happening.
Yes, Snow Leopard is an upgrade from Leopard. 10.5 to 10.6
One thing to keep in mind. If you download and install updates as they become available, they won't necessarily include the patches or fixes for problems you are encountering. The Software Update window will have the links available for the updates so you can read the documentation before installing.
This is the docs for the 10.6.1 update.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3810
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
If you could reply and provide details to the problem you are having, then we can try and help.
Carolyn

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