The original data isn't tick by tick its in 1/5th second samples. I believe that the smallest sample size for backfill data is 5 second (OHLCVT)
I use the IB data to backfill my charts in the QuoteTracker tool. You can then save the backfill data from within QuoteTracker to a .csv file.
You can get free historical tick data from http://www.opentick.com for US markets. IB historical data is useless for this purpose.
Statistically even IB psudo-tick data will do you no harm . Sometimes it hurts, sometimes it helps, it all depends on your strategy.