MacBook OS X (10.5.2) vs MacPro OS X (10.4.8)

I just purchased a MacBook this week, with OS X 10.5.2. Since day one (Monday), I have been having trouble with printing to a wireless network printer, and other problems like staying connected to the internet (airport very frequently loses the connection). I've been reading several threads here in this forum, and it appears that I am not alone in these problems, but that Apple is tending to ignore the issues.
So, I thought of an idea, but I'm not enough of a computer guru to know if this is a good/bad/neither idea. Here it is: One year ago, I bought a MacPro, with OS X 10.4.8. I thought, just maybe this will work, if I took the OS discs from the MacPro, and installed them on the MacBook, to get back to an OS version that didn't have so many problems.
Would that work? Will it solve anything? Will it cause other problems? Is it even feasible to go backwards with OS versions?

It won't work at all. You cannot install an old OS onto a newer machine. The installer will refuse to do it.
Don't pay so much attention to what you see on this forum. Apple doesn't ignore issues. If there are 100,000 individual people with Macbook airport problems that have posted here (and there aren't anywhere near that many), that means this is an issue with, maybe 1.6% of all Macbooks.
It would be better to post a new topic asking how to improve reliability with your router, and specify the router model, your security settings, etc. Topics like this one are just going to get pro/con rants and lots of "me too" and you won't get anything resolved.

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