Uninstalling loepard v 10.5 back to tiger mac OS X 10.4.11

I just installed the leopard over my tiger and I do not like it. Repair disk feature take much longer and I cannot read my printer or external hardrive with the leopard and I hate it. Can anyone help- Can i restore my old tiger back to how I left it? I have not done a back up yet, I do not know how to as my external hard drive does not work with this leopard. I want to reinstall Tiger and use key holding down the "C' key while rebooting the DVD etc and then I can select "archive and Install' option but I could not select the "preserve Users and Network settings" as suggested over the net if I want to preserve all my stuff while reinstalling the Tiger... Can some one please give me some advice please or should I ring Apple care and let them assist me with this?

Hi, you've got a rough road in front of you, since Leopard moved many personal files & settings from where they were.
I presume the external drive has a Prolific PL3507 chipset in it? If so it went to Read Only on Leo... GRRR!
Is that external drive a bootable clone? Recent Backup, or what exactly?
Can you boot from it by holdion the Option key at bootup?

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