As for Leia remembering Padme.........well, LucASS has made it clear that different things in the saga can be taken all different kinds of ways. I think the most logical solution is that since Leia obviously knew she was adopted, she must have asked Bail and his wife about her. The Organas probably did tell Leia something about Padme, just not everything. With Leia being force-sensitive, she probably just tapped into the "feeling" of Padme through whatever the Organas told her.
I know....there's an awful lot of probablys there, but I think it somewhat holds water. I don't like having to connect the dots like that though. You can toy with people about thematic stuff like "this could mean this" or "it could mean the exact opposite", but this is a tangible plot point. It deserves a concrete explanation. It's not an important point in the story, meaning it doesn't effect the story in a major way, but it needs some coverage for sure.
LucASS basically wrote himself into a corner with the OT and honestly, the prequels could only have been one way and one way only. But for some asinine reason, LucASS has decided to go in the complete opposite direction of what the OT dictated to be done.
It's almost like blatant sabotage to me. Why would you create half a story that's so great, and then tell the other half in a way that it dimishes the first half. There is no one in this world who's gonna tell me that the PT and the OT gel perfectly together. My problem is they SHOULD. A writer has a responsibility to give his creation the best possible effort. Tolkien obviously threw himself into LOTR and look at how those books turned out. This is the most frustrating thing to me. LucASS could have been right up there with Tolkien as one of the great imaginations of all time and he basically blew it and for what?
ARGH!!!! I hate thinking about this!!!!