I am returning to Leopard. Is it possible?

Will it be possible to return to Leopard? I want to use 10.56. I didn't have any problems with it. Photoshop CS 1 worked fine on it. On Snow Leopard I have problems with "Move a layer" with Snow Leopard (even with Rosetta installed). Also, MS Word doesn't work that well. It takes forever to save and I can't copy and paste word files from MS Word to Pages. Other strange things. It started getting really slow to shut down and slow to boot. It's OK now but that's because of the fresh install, and I haven't updated to 10.63. I am scared to do that now. The only good thing was the extra gigabytes and Safari 4, but I don't use Safari much anyway, Opera is so fast.
And lots of whirling balls of death before I did the clean install.
I don't think the upgrade works very well - from Leopard to Snow Leopard, best to do a clean install.
However, I want to go back to Leopard as I didn't have any problems with it except maybe I couldn't get the latest upgrades of certain programs and I lost about 5GBs of space on my hard drive compared to Snow Leopard.
Also, Bootcamp doesn't work as well. I can't get the network to operate on Windows XP. On Leopard, it transferred seamlessly without having to adjust the control panel or anything. Now, my only choice is unsecured wireless network. I don't want financial data to be unsecured when doing internet banking or purchasing with a credit card.
What is the point of Snow Leopard? Seems like Apple's aware of problems with it but no solutions are coming. Life is too short to worry about Update beta, update combo or whatever. Or whether 6.2 is btter than 6.1 etc.
How do I go about doing the clean install?
Will there be any problems because I will be transferring files like Safari which have a higher version than Leopard can handle? What should I do in that case? Will the lower version of applications install automatically?
I don't know how it will work out. I've never downgraded the operating system before. It's always been up.
Will it be OK or will I have to do a lot of fiddling around afterwards? Because I'm not good at that.
Thanks.

I'm not sure exactly what options the Leopard installer offers. Older installers used to offer Archive and Install (which renamed your System folder and installed a new one) but I have a feeling that this won't work anyway when reverting to an older system. The other option is Erase and Install - which does what it says, +erasing your entire hard disk+.
If before proceeding you clone (not just copy) your hard disk to an external one then when you have done an Erase and Install you will be able to use Migration Assistant to restore your Home Folder, settings, and other data. (You will need a program such as SuperDuper to do this.) If you do this then you should run Migration Assistant as soon as you have the option when you boot the new install, and import Users. Do not create a new account on the new install before running Migration Assistant.
If you don't clone, but simply backup, your disk you will need to copy all the data over manually and set up networking and other parameters from scratch. In this case you would create a new account (which should have the same name as before).
It's worth looking at this Apple Tech Note:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1545

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