How to reinstall Snow Leopard after installing MtLion

Hello - i have a slight (or major) problem.
I have just installed MtLion and now i am unable to open my Adobe CS because the new OS MtLion days that those applications are "no longer supported - because they are PowerPC applications". I also have the same message for my MicroSoft Word/Excell/Powerpoint programs. I tried to re-install the programs, but even when trying to launch the CD - it gives me the same message ! This is very fustrating ! ! ! And i need this for my work !
Can someone please tell me the safe way to revert back to SnowLeopard.
Or is there a way around this (other than re-purchasing the Adobe CS/MicroSoft apps.
Thx
(ps : Klaus1 was very helpful with my last problem, so if you get this message - i could use your advice again... unless you are out to lunch ! LOL !

However, do you know if there is a remote chance that those files can be accessd (via an IT profressional) and recovered?
Provided the data wasn't overwritten yet or encrypted, the files can still be recovered with Data Rescue installed on a external boot drive.
Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
I was reading in a forum that it is (or was) possible to 'split' my
partition to something called boot camp which is alwyes microsoft/adobe
programs to function on a mac platform. Do you know if this is possible
with OS MtLion?
Partitions are the sectioned split parts of a drive.
One of the partitions can be BootCamp and direct installed Windows and the Mac can boot into Windows.
If you have Wiundows versions of those softwares, then you can run them in BootCamp or in a virtual machine program in OS X.
If you have OS X versions of those programs, then they need to run on OS X on the MacintoshHD parittion.
OS X Mountian Lion will allow Windows 7 and 8 to install into Bootcamp, not sure about Vista, not XP.
Virtual Machine software you can install just about anything but there is a performance penalty.
Windows in BootCamp or Virtual Machine?
Install Windows or Linux into VirtualBox

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