Restoring iPhone 4s BACK to iOS 5.0.1

I know that 5.1 is great and all, but I have had NOTHING but problems since installing 5.1 with my battery.
I plug the iPhone in to charge, and it says 100%, take it off the charger and within minutes (and me not doing ANYTHING on the phone), the battery life drops at least 5%.
This has been happening on both my phone and my husbands phone, and so we took the phones to the Apple Store and they replaced them for us.
My husband did NOT upgrade to 5.1 and I did. Since I reverted back to 5.1, I have had the SAME battery problems as before, and his battery has no problems. I have reset my phone probably 7 times since I got it Saturday, each time trying to get 5.0.1 to install back on there, but it never does.
So, my question is.... how can I get back to iOS 5.0.1 without having to go back to the Apple store and have them replace the phone again? Every time I try and restore the phone back to factory settings, it installs it with 5.1.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

There is no legit way at all to downgrade.

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b.t.w
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