Recently installed LION - mistake! How can I reload Snow Leopard?

Made the mistake of purchasing and installing Lion on my iMac - now cannot use any of my Adobe applications without huge cost of upgrading.
Have tried to reload Snow Leopard but will not allow.
How can I get back to Snow Leopard?
Frank Hollis

Frank Hollis1 wrote:
Made the mistake of purchasing and installing Lion on my iMac - now cannot use any of my Adobe applications without huge cost of upgrading.
Have tried to reload Snow Leopard but will not allow.
How can I get back to Snow Leopard?
Frank Hollis
Reinstall from your latest backup. Your Adobe Suite must be fairly old as CS4, CS5 and CS6 are all fine. Some seem to have no problems with CS3 or so they say. Anything older is just too old, and really does not belong on Lion anyway. Some complain of Office 2004 not working. 8 years old! A lifetime in computing.
Anyway boot up from your Snow leopard discs, erase your drive and install your latest backup.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3525616

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