Please help! How do I uninstall ML? Can I do it from either time machine or a snow leopard disk?

Hi,
I feel like I am going slowly mad!
I need to uninstal Mountain Lion....
Please help!

Hi cbs20,
Thanks for replying..
Yep I have repaired the disk....and done something called a PRAM and SMC but I found that I don't have enough memory as I've only 2GB but I've ordered more RAM......so I told myself to be patience until the RAM arrived but my printer just wont work with the upgrade...I've tried downloading the most recent driver software but it just wont work...
Just says that printer is offline...
So at the moment I am not seeing any benefits at all to having ML so I want it gone!
But.....how do I do that :-)

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