Can I do a complete restore from time machine to get rid of Itunes 11?

I know this might be a stupid question...and I also know it might be complete overkill but I absolutely hate Itunes 11 and I desperately want to go back to the previous version. I always back up to an external hard drive once a week using time machine. Time machine make a complete backup of my system. Since I am not so computer literate I was wondering if it would be easier for me to just completely restore to my previous backup, 1 week before i installed itunes 11. I have read over the forums and there seem to be other ways of doing this but it seems really complicated. i realize I will lose everything from then until now but I am willing to do that if it's easier....any thoughts??
Any help would be much appreciated...

oh...totally forgot to reply....
yes the restore worked, but after that i had to import all songs, tv shows and movies into itunes...took hours....
but otherwise, no problems. i would suggest to export your playlists before and import them after the restore.
otherwise they are gone.....
but i am really happy to have 10.7 back...11 is really buggy even after 11.01 they still didnt fix
these bugs....lucky i have a macbook, to try....in future i will always do the updates on the macbook
to avoid these stupid and time consuming surprises.
i am now on mac for abt 1.5 years, and this is the worst i have seen them doing....hope they will fix this soon.

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I have around 16,000 Messages in my Mail 3.2 Inbox. I use Gmail IMAP service. One thing I like about Mail is that next to all my messages there are these arrows that indicate whether I have replied to or forwarded a particular message and clicking on them takes me to my response to a particular email.
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Mheck21 wrote:
I replaced the internal because I need more space, I'm not an expert, but I've done it before. I wasn't having trouble I was just running out of room and decided to upgrade?
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About ago my MB Pro was stolen. Fortunately, I had strong security settings and was diligent about backing up to Time Machine.
I am about to purchase a new iMac to replace the MB Pro, and will be doing a complete restore from time machine to recover my data. However, since my computer was stolen, life has gone on. I have purchased music from iTunes via my iPhone and also added many new contacts. Does anyone know what will happen the first time I try to sync my iPhone to my fully restored image on the new computer? Will iTunes recognize the iPhone as it was before and do a 2 way sync (new music and contacts sent back to iMac) or will it want to override all data on the iPhone and replace it with the existing contacts and music from the restore?
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