codyanne07 wrote:
........but I never backed up my files, and I want to now, but I have lion osx and if I do back up my files now, when I restore it, it will restore as lion....
This is the reason why 'backing up' has become the No. 1 rule of computing over the last 10 years. Wanting to do it now is a bit late. You can do a fresh erase and install of Snow Leopard from your system disks and just hope you can copy over any data you need from the Lion backup, although I would be pretty sure that Mail may be gone and a lot of preferences will need to be reset. Someone else may have a better solution. But I would be seriously looking at WHY you are having issues running slow, as that is not the normal experience of Lion, except perhaps by some in a trouble shooting forum. And Office is obviously 2004 which won't work anymore but is seven years old after all.
Cheers