Downgraded from Maverick and now It seems like SL is unstable.

Hi,
White MacBook (late 2009)
8Gb RAM
I upgraded to Maverick and started to regret that decision since it felt like the laptop got slower. So I used my installation disk to downgrade again to Snow Leopard. I performed many software updates after installing Snow Leopard.
The OS X (I'm trying to use the correct terminology here) feels unstable and is acting slow and unreliable. Examples:
When I open Appstore the images won't load. This does not only occur with Appstore, but also with websites and documents.
Apps are crashing more often now. It just says that it crashed and asks if I would like to send an error report. This did not happen before I went from Snow Leopard --> Maverick --> Snow Leopard. Can it have something to do with my upgrade of RAM?
I can't install purchased apps from appstore. I get various error messages, here is the latest error message:
I have used the Disk Utility to repair disk permissions and with the 8Gb RAM one would think that this MacBook would be lightning fast.
Please give any hints, tips and tricks. I just want to have a normal, stable system that can do anything and not be slow and sometimes crashing and not loading stuff. Tell me if you need more info about my MacBook.
Thank you,
Theodice

You are going to have to do some research. Check out the Google link here, which deals with the problems of reverting to Snow Leopard.
Mavericks back to Snow Leopard - Google Search

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