Don’t sell yourself short. I shared your exact motivation with doing my prequel edits. (This time; not the 2006 edits.)
Use every and anything of mine you like; it’s part of the textual lineage now.
Hal, if you’re reading this, were the blu-ray deleted scenes ever upscaled like the DVD ones?
No; none of them struck me as useful at the time. They were not presented well, at any rate.