How to move to 32-bit in Vista?

When I got to my computer in Nov 2007 (Dell with Vista home) it is 64-bit and many things would work right. The Dell guy helped me to change to 32 bit and everything was fine until a few days ago. I thought that I would like to download IE 9 and now it won't work. He seems to have switched back to 64-bit and IE will not work.  It's simple... How can I go back to IE 8 and 32 bit? Help!

You'll have to refomat / reinstall windows

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