How can i get rid of Lion? and reload 10.6?

My previous MBP's screen stopped working, and would be prohibitively expensive to repair. So i upgraded to a mid 2010 model 17"MBP, which i bought from Apple as a refurb -because it didn't have Lion on it , thus, my Adobe software and several other pieces of software would still be supported.
I used it for about 3 hours and the HD died, so i had to send it in for a repair. It just came back today, with a new HD that had Lion loaded on it.
Which means a great deal of my work software (which works fine on 10.6) will need to be upgraded and i can't afford to do that.
SO.... how can i dump Lion (which i HATE for various reasons.. worst OS ever if you actually use the machine for work) and then re-upload OS10.6? I have a call in to support now.. to see what they will do.. Sorry for the rambling, but i'm extremely ****** off...

Downgrade Lion to Snow Leopard
1.  Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button.  When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area.  If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing.  SMART info will not be reported  on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Quit DU and return to the installer. Install Snow Leopard.
This will erase the whole drive so be sure to backup your files if you don't have a backup already. If you have performed a TM backup using Lion be aware that you cannot restore from that backup in Snow Leopard (see below.) I suggest you make a separate backup using Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.1.
If you have Snow Leopard Time Machine backups, do a full system restore per #14 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.  If you have subsequent backups from Lion, you can restore newer items selectively, via the "Star Wars" display, per #15 there, but be careful; some Snow Leopard apps may not work with the Lion files.

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