I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with the Cinnamon PPA, so I can't be 100% sure this will work for you - but here goes..
This command
should show you which nautilus related packages are installed.
You will have nautilus, nautilus-data, and quite possibly other nautilus extension related stuff installed. The nautilus-data library is a dependency for Cinnamon, but you can remove nautilus itself and probably everything else nautilus related.
You'll probably also want to purge everything nautilus related except nautilus-data. Synaptic is your friend here.
A word of warning: gnome-session depends on Nautilus, so you won't be able to use Gnome-Shell. If you find you can't log-in to Cinnamon either, you'll have to put gnome-session back using
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sudo apt-get install gnome-session
If you need to drop to a text login use Ctrl+Alt+F1.
Nautilus may also be set as the preferred application for opening folders (it is in Ubuntu). These preferences are stored in /etc/gnome/defaults.list
This command
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grep nautilus /etc/gnome/defaults.list
will show you the folder/file types that nautilus is associated with.
You can replace nautilus with nemo as the preferred application with this command:
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sed -i.back 's/nautilus/nemo/g' /etc/gnome/defaults.list
Unfortunately some applications may still be hard coded to launch Nautilus and won't respect your application preferences. I think cryptkeeper is one, but I haven't found any others.
Please let us know how you get on.