I restore my iPhone from an old Backup in iTunes.  The Contacts get overwritten by those in iCloud immediately.  How do I prevent this and keep my old contacts?

I restore an old Backup from iTunes to my iPhone 4.  The contacts are immediately overwritten by those in iCloud.  How do I prevent iCloud contact list over writing the contact list restored from the iTunes Backup?

Yes you can erase the drive and reinstall OS 10.6 from the original disk.
1. Put the disk in and restart the computer while holding the C key down. (The letter C.)
2. When the computer boots you will see the beginning of the OS installation, and have to select a language.
3. On the next screen there is a menu bar. Click Utilities on the menu bar and select Disk Utility.
4. When DU is running, select the hard drive in the left hand column, format should be Mac OS extended journaled, then click Erase.
5. When that task is done, quit DU and proceed with the installation. It will take some time.
6. The computer will restart after the installation is completed and show you an awful noisy welcoming screen.
Then you have to enter information about yourself.
7. Run Software update to get to OS 10.6.8.
Now you can go to the App store and find your previous purchases. You will not have to pay for them again. And you do not have install them one at a time. If for example you want 10.9, and your computer can handle it, go directly to 10.9.1 from 10.6.8.

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