You mentioned the opening crawl, I had been meaning to bring that up again. I know we've been over this before (and you have the final say of course) but the title, which I was satisfied with originally, I really do think should be changed considering you plan to go with "Balance of the Force," and "Revenge of the Sith," for I and III. This makes the entire PT consist of ___ of the ___ titles. "Dark Force Rising" or "Dark Force Ascendent" have always been favorites of mine. I do like "Shroud of the Dark Side," I just think it will be a bit repetitive. And I would alter your crawl in the following manner:
Episode II
DARK FORCE ASCENDENT
It has been ten years since Surpeme Chancellor Palpatine assumed leadership of the Galactic Senate, and unrest once again pervades galaxy. Several thousand systems have declared their intentions to secede from the Republic.
This separatist movement, under the leadership of the mysterious Count Dooku, have made it especially difficult for the limited number of Jedi Knights to maintain peace and order in the galaxy.
Queen Padme Amidala, now serving as Senator of Naboo, is en route to Coruscant to vote on the critical issue of creating an ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC to assist the overwhelmed Jedi....
Palpatine wasn't exactly elected, so "assuming leadrship" is more in line with his dubious rise to power. The full titles of Palpatine and Padme make everything more 'official.' I made reference to Padme's current political status, and overall altered the crawl to match more with the original. And while I see where you were trying to parallel the last paragraph of ANH's text with "pursued by....," and while it does sound more dynamic, it's not exactly a true repesentation of what's going on. Those are just my suggestions, and once again you're the boss, so if you don't agree with them/don't want to redo the opening I understand.
And I take it you're referring to my notes about Padme remaining a Queen. Yes, some of the edits work regardless. Such as cutting Windu telling Anakin to ask Palpatine about Padme leaving Coruscant. Now it plays as Anakin going to tell his friend and mentor the good news about finally getting a mission of his own.
I'm glad you and MF got in contact and collaborated on the Syfo-Dias solution. I look forward to be surprised by something in this edit!
And since you can control the pitch of audio I wouldn't worry about Jar-Jar's yodelling in TPM and go for the German version!