I've recently "upgraded" to Mavericks, but find it a very poor OS, so want to revert to the previous OSX. I backed up my MacBook before changing, so how do I reload the old system?

Having "upgraded" to Mavericks, I'm totally dissatisfied with it. Several things are missing that were useful on the old OSX that I had before, e.g, in Mail, there is no indication that mail is being downloaded. Also, my version of Dreamweaver won't work with Mavericks and while it's not so important on my Macbook, I haven't bothered to change my iMac. Safari, too, is not as good as on the old system. Even the trackpad is not as good as it used to be!!!! All in all, this "upgrade" is rather like a typical Windows one, i.e., of no use whatsoever!!!
I backed up my Macbook before loading the new OS, but now want to return to the much better and efficient OSX that I was using before. How do I do this?

You may find these articles useful:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14176
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6162
Ciao.

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gl,
kel

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