Downgrade from Yosemite using Time Machine

Hi, 
I am planning on downgrading from Yosemite back to Mavericks because of the fonts/resolution debacle, I am partially sighted and use the Accessibility function Zoom and the thin, grey blurry fonts are made worse by the magnification process  which means I am having great difficulty just doing simple things like reading emails and using Finder windows, I have tried checking the 'Increase contrast' option in Accessibility>Display and the 'Use LCD font smoothing...' option all to no avail, if only Zoom worked like 'pinch to zoom' in Safari (I use a trackpad).
Anyway my question concerns using a Time Machine backup to downgrade, I have two external HDDs one for TM backups the other containing my iTunes media folder which is also backed up by TM,  can I disconnect the iTunes media folder HDD before I restore from TM or will there be an issue if TM has to also restore the iTunes media folder ?
I hope this makes sense.
Thanks in advance
Pete
2012 iMac 27"

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