Downgrading a 2008 MacBook to 10.4?  Is it impossible?

I am not going to say that 10.5 doesn't have neat features, but the system is not stable. I rely heavily on the freeware 3d program Blender, which runs poorly due to the integrated graphics (or something like that...) built-in to the MacBook and utilized by 10.5 Leopard. For me, this is crippling because I need a portable computer and cannot afford to buy a MacBook Pro.
According to reports, Tiger runs the MacBook graphics in a different way, making it ideal for Blender. However, my MacBook came with Leopard built-in. I'm afraid that my MacBook is physically dependent on an unstable system, and I cannot afford to replace my MacBook with a $2000 MacBook Pro.
Is there any safe way to downgrade to Tiger, or somehow get Leopard to utilize the MacBook's graphics the way Tiger did?

Yeah, my posts there have been automatically deleted. The developers are tired of my whining.
And by the way, this program works on MacBook Pros and other, more expensive, machines with Leopard. According to the moderators on the blender site, this has been Apple's fault. I would tend to agree (like I really have a choice at this point).
Besides, I've installed Ubuntu 8.04, and blender works fine with it. Fancy that: a free system works better and faster than a system put together by one of the most overpriced and greedy companies that I've ever seen. Once I get the wireless and right-click workaround up and running, I plan to abandon this premature system.

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