Just loaded Lion on my iMac 2 days ago. The whole computer is on valium now. iTunes won't work right. Downloads fail. I AM SO FRUSTRATED I COULD CRY. I hate this.

I just loaded Lion on our iMac 2 days ago and it was the worst thing I have ever done.
How do I uninstall or remove it and go back to Snow Leopard?
I can't get any help right now due to time zones. I have an Apple Care account that isn't doing me any good.
I HATE LION.
iTunes keeps timing out on an update download stating a 685MB download will take 7 hours.
EVERYTHING is slow slow slow like a pc.
I hate this thing.
How do I get rid of Lion and go back to Snow Leopard.
I don't even care about the $29.95, just give me back my old computer!!

leannfromspokane wrote:
I want Snow Leopard back.
This is perfectly understandable. Please ignore the users that try to convince you that Lion is good. It isn't as of 10.7.1 . For production work I highly recommend using Snow until Lion gets its major bugfix update which is not on the horizon as far as "End Users" can foresee. Dev-talk is not allowed here, well they all swear 10.7.2 will do the wonders.. anyhow.
If your Mac was shipped with Snow preinstalled, then you must have either a Restore DVD or a USB thumbdrive. Apple delivered the DVD with all optical-drive equipped macs and the usb for the MacBookAir etc, that don't have a drive.
The procedure would be in all cases to boot the Mac from that recovery medium, thus landing inside Snow's installer which would give you the option to launch disk utility, erase the partition and install Snow onto it .
Your personal data needs to be backed up before , and I do not recommend using Lion's timemachine for that but just copy the complete User Profile Folder with your name to a external drive for example. This will then include your documents // pictures // itunes media // library and so on. All that can be copied back to the same folder names in Snow .

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