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Now when I realized I couldn't downgrade that easy I tried to restart my computer and I held down c but then I realized I didn't save my documents and other things I let go and then it tried to get me to start from scratch so I held down the power button and now that I'm trying to restart it, it just sits on they gray start up screen with the loading Pinwheel and it's been her for about 20 minutes!! How do fix it?? Thanks for everyone's help!!

So you did a force quit and now you are trying to start it again right?
If so and the "beachball of death" is still spinning, deny the machine it's power source, remove the power cord and the battery and any periphials you have plugged in ie: extra drives etc. Let it rest for a minute plug it all back in then try re-starting in safe mode. If all is well shut down and restart normally.
If you get this far repair the disk and permissions using Disk utility.
Hope this helps
here is a link for the safe mode start-up: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1455

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because "it uses too much power"
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