How can uninstall leopard back to tiger Mac os X 10.4.11

I just installed leopard on my mac and I am having issues with it- when ever I repair disk it takes a long time and my printer icon is a question mark in place of the icon. I want to go back to the tiger can any one help to do this ?

You mean you have never made backups? Consider yourself lucky that you have never had complete data loss resulting from a drive failure.
Get an external hard drive. Clone your hard drive to it with a program like SuperDuper. Then erase your internal hard drive, and reinstall Tiger on it. Then copy over your personal files from your backup.
No you cannot Archive & Install Tiger on a volume that has Leopard installed. You can try, and it might appear to work, but Apple does not recommend it because it could result in an unstable system.

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