I'm running mountain lion and i want to dual boot in lion.

I use a MacPro 3.1 to run my protools system
i just acquired a piece of gear that doesn't have software drivers for os x 10.8 a Tascam FW 1884
so, what i want to do is dual boot my 4th internal HD to Lion 32-bit
ive partioned it, but when i try to run the installer it wont let me, it says my software version is too new,
forgive me im a mac noob

It would appear you were given a disc image containing an OS X Lion installer. You can't boot from it because it's on a non-writeable disc image. I suggest your go find yourself an 8 GB USB flash drive. You can then clone the disc image to the flash drive. First, partition and format the flash drive using Disk Utility. Setup one partition and format of Mac OS Extended, Journaled. When that is done clone the mounted disk image to the flash drive:
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
  1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
  2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
  3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
  4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag
       it to the Destination entry field.
  5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
      the Source entry field.
  6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the formatted flash drive. Source means the mounted disc image.
When it's complete you should be able to boot from it.

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