Need help reverting back to SL from Lion. MacBook won't boot up!!!

I am hoping someone can help with this issue. I am trying to revert back to Snow Leopard after upgrading to Lion on my MacBook, but it doesn't seem to be working. After upgrading to Lion, I found out the hard way that Quicken 2007 no longer works. Since I use this regularly, I need to at least export my data out of there to use in a Lion-friendly program. However, it seems the only way that I can do this is to down-grade back to Snow Leopard first. I have been using Time Machine for regular backups for over a year now, and my most recent backup was right before upgrading to Lion.
Here is what I have done so far:
- I booted up in Restore Mode and selected the backup on my Time Capsule that I wanted to restore from. I then selected my HD to restore to. The restore took a little over 2 hours, and it appeared to have been successful. However, upon restarting, it seems to lock up on the initial screen with the Apple logo and the spinning wheel.
- I then booted up with the Snow Leopard disc and tried reloading Snow Leopard, but it wouldn't let me erase the HD. I used the Disk Utility to check the HD, and it appears to be functional. For some reason, I am not able to eject the Snow Leopard disc.
- After rebooting in Restore Mode again (the Snow Leopard disc is still inserted), I again tried restoring from a backup on my Time Capsule. It again took a little over 2 hours, and appeared to be successful. However, after rebooting, it again locks up on the initial screen with the Apple logo and the spinning wheel.
This all took up about 7 hours of my time last night, and I finally gave up. I was able to power down my MacBook, but the Snow Leopard disc is still in it, since it would not eject.
Before upgrading to Lion, I downloaded and installed all available updates. The last Time Machine backup was done after these updates.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can successfully get Snow Leopard back on my MacBook?

OK, the install disc ejected this time. I was finally able to reload Snow Leopard successfully, however, it wouldn't let me restore from my latest TM backup. It gave me some sort of message about the case not being correct. (I guess I should have written down the exact message).
Anyway, I then rebooted in restore mode with the SL disc, and selected my last TM backup before the Lion install, and almost 3 hours later, it tells me that the system was successfully restored. It then told me I needed to restart the system, which I did. However, it still locks up on the screen with the Apple logo and the spinning wheel. Should I have removed the SL disc first before restarting?
Considering all of the above, it appears that there is nothing wrong with my HD, which leaves me wondering what the actual issue is?
macjack wrote:
IF you can erase, my preference at this point would to do a clean install from your SL Install disk and then in SetUp Assistant choose to migrate from your TM volume .
Maybe I should do this? How do I go about erasing my HD? When I did the install of SL, I noticed that I still had some of my old stuff (i.e. all of my iTunes music), so obviously, the HD was not erased before the install. Once I have erased the HD and done the clean install, how do I get to the SetUp Assistant to migrate from my TM volume? Will this restore everything back to the way it was before the upgrade to Lion?

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