I never, ever will buy the arguement that Lucas made once of 'why would I spend the money to renovate a film that I consider incomplete?' The money has been spent... over and over and over again. I'm sure the few cents it would cost to get an FX guy, a post house or even one of us to clean up the maybe two or three scenes that might possibly have not been touched already would be minimal in comparison to the cost of putting Hayden in ROTJ or any of the other crap. The sad truth may just be that ole George is just a few bananas short of a bunch.
Its like many of the remakes that come out of Hollywood- why for frak's sake make a shot-for-shot remake of 'Psycho'?? Do they have a right to? Yeah sure, its a free country. Is it a waste of money? Absolutely. Would *I* care to watch it (or most other remakes)? Not if I love the original, I won't. But isn't that what we go on about... just to be given a choice? At least Spielberg wised up at the last minute with 'E.T.' And other than Lucas, have you noticed that all the 'director's cuts' and theatrical releases of classic films have slowed waaaaaayyyyy down since '97 when the SE OT came out? People are learning.
So let George make a new version of the OT with hot young stars and Gungans running aroud everywhere. At least we have each other's preservation work of a series that 'doesn't exist'.