Downgrading from iTunes 8 to 7, despite adding playlists since upgrading

Anyone know how to do this?
Problem is, I've made many changes to the iTunes Library since upgrading from iTunes 7 to 8, and i don't wish to lose those changes.

I managed to save my playlist changes by following some of the advice in this thread meant for Windows: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1723649&tstart=0
Basically, I saved my *iTunes Music Library.xml* file and imported it after installing iTunes 7.7.1
Before reverting from iTunes 8.0.2 to 7.7.1, I deleted several files – many of which were possibly unnecessary. I should add I don't use iTunes for anything besides playing music – I have no iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, and I don't share my Library. My iTunes Library is located on my internal, startup disk.
1. Backed up my entire startup disk, just in case.
2. Quit iTunes 8, then quit iTunes Helper via the Activity Monitor.
3. Uninstalled iTunes 8.0.2
4. Temporarily removed any InputManagers I have, just in case. None of them are intended for iTunes or should affect it in any way – cool it Voodoo.
5. Moved ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml to my desktop.
6. Deleted ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist (I can't remember whether I got rid of the com.apple.iTunes.eq.plist and com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist)
7. Deleted all files in the ~/Music/iTunes folder except the iTunes Music folder. This saved me a Gig's worth of album art too - iTunes 8 is a monster when it comes to storing its album art library.
8. Deleted Library/Receipts/AppleMobileDeviceSupport.pkg, iTunesX.pkg and any other iTunes-related receipts I could find.
9. Restarted my Mac in Safe Mode (hold down Shift key when hearing startup chime, let go once the spinning thingy appears).
10. Installed iTunes 7.7.1
11. Launched iTunes 7.7.1 while holding down the Shift key (or was it the Alt key?), then asked it to import the iTunes Music Library.xml file I'd moved to my desktop.
12. Let it do its thing – this took quite a while.
13. Quit iTunes, restarted my Mac in Safe Mode again (call me paranoid)
14. Restarted my Mac normally and returned all InputManagers to their rightful place.
Presto! Back to all-round goodness – responsiveness is good again (commands such as clicking on a playlist, double-clicking on a song etc. now execute within 0-2 sec. instead of 5-10 sec.), full screen Cover Flow is back, iTunes takes less time to start up etc.
My playlists, star ratings, play count etc. were left intact.
A serious downside for me was that I lost my MP3s' EQ settings. My library still had all my custom EQ settings, but none were assigned to any of my music. This is taking me a week or two to redo.
Also, for some strange reason a few of my MP3s lost either their artist sort tags, album artist sort tags, artist tags or album artist tags. Btw, since before iTunes 8, I've converted all my ID3 tags to v2.4.
I marked this thread as unanswered, since my downgrade wasn't 100% successful. Maybe someone else has better advice for those who'd like to revert to iTunes sanity

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