Help with uninstalling Mountain Lion .. back to Lion

A few weeks ago I installed ML and after further review, I really want to revert back to Lion instead. Without going into great specifics, I just liked Lion much bettter. I have tried to research such a task, but to no avail. I am on an 2011 imac running 10.8. I have a little experience (little being the operative word here), Macs .. but, please be gentle .. not enough to do this.
How can I uninstall ML to eventually get myself back to Lion?
Thanks so much!

m3commish wrote:
How can I uninstall ML to eventually get myself back to Lion?
If your iMac came with 10.6 disks then you can hold c boot (backup your personal info first off the machine, not to TimeMachine!) and use that to erase the entire internal drive and install 10.6
Then call Apple via phone and say you want to upgrade to 10.7 as they still sell it to those who can only upgrade to 10.7, however they might review your records and see your able too or already upgraded to 10.8 and deny you.
Since 10.7 can only be installed via Apple download, they contol if you can go back or not.
If you can find a 10.7 USB Thumb drive on eBay or Amazon, then you can use that (hold option key and boot from it) as it's a 2011 iMac.
Howver again you need to make sure the boot drive is completely erased, there is a couple of hidden partitions that need to be erased so they are back to 10.7 state.
Again don't use TimeMachine for restoring your data, it only works on 10.8 now that you have updated it. If you didn't connect your 10.7 TimeMachine then it's still good to restore from, provided you erase the boot drive and install 10.7 first.

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