Restoring Leopard after installing SL with Time Machine with only a SL Disk

I just bought Snow Leopard and I haven't installed it yet. I am currently running Leopard on my MacBook Pro. I have heard of issued with Adobe CS4 and I'm afraid of having such issues, so before I install SL, I want to make sure I can revert to Leopard in case I have problems with Adobe CS4 applications. I use Time Machine, and I know that to restore the entire system from Time Machine, I need a bootable OS X install disk.
My problem is the following: I do not have my Leopard install DVD at hand, it is in another country and I won't have access to it for a few months. So I was wondering whether I can restore my current system (after installing Snow Leopard) using Time Machine, by booting from the Snow Leopard install disk.
So basically: If I installed Snow Leopard, and wanted to go back to before I installed it, could I simply insert the Snow Leopard install disk, and restore Leopard, along with my apps and documents, from my Time Machine backup? Or do I need the Leopard disk to do that?
Thanks!

Mate Dobray wrote:
I want to make sure I can revert to Leopard in case I have problems with Adobe CS4 applications.
You shouldn't have anything but maybe minimal CS4 problems under Sno. But, anything can happen.
I use Time Machine, and I know that to restore the entire system from Time >Machine, I need a bootable OS X install disk. My problem is the following: I do >not have my Leopard install DVD at hand, it is in another country and I won't >have access to it for a few months. So I was wondering whether I can restore my >current system (after installing Snow Leopard) using Time Machine, by booting >from the Snow Leopard install disk.
I have never done exactly what you say, but my opinion is that it will work.
So basically: If I installed Snow Leopard, and wanted to go back to before I installed it, could I simply insert the Snow Leopard install disk, and restore Leopard, along with my apps and documents, from my Time Machine backup? Or do I >need the Leopard disk to do that?
I think it should work as said above. No guarantees though. It would be better is you bought a firewire external and cloned your existing system to the external to be safe--considering the difficulties that might arise since you don't have your Leopard disk.
Can you at least back your data up separately on your TM disk? Then, worst case is that you might have to do an erase and install of Sno if your first install doesn't work well and then figure out how to deal with lost apps if TM let's you down.
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