Can I restore from backup of time machine of Mountain Lion on a fresh install Older Snow Lepord

Currently I have OS X 10.8.5 on my macbook pro.
I have done much of the recovery tricks stated on variour threads. SO as apple support suggested I even tried the internet restore of the OS.
After a long wait the installable started and I selected the option to reinstall the OS. But it prompted back that that the version which I have installed on the the macbook pro was the latest and hence can't be replaced. So the option to restore from my time machine and I was able to work on the mac for sometime. I thought the issue was resolved, but it doesn;t seems so.
So will it be wise to completely wipe out the OS and reinstall from scratch. I have snow lepord OS DVD which originally came with the mac.
So if I install from scratch snow lepord, will I be able to restore files which were backed up on OS X Lion (current OS) ? Kindly advice.

I got a discussion thread here which suggests I can't
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3214393?start=0&tstart=0
Please help ...

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