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I'm too familiar with the musical cues of the OT. I can name and describe a scene just from hearing the music. The little additions and subtractions of seconds here and there throws me off. I'm expecting to hear the music do something, and it doesn't happen, and while my brain is going "what the fu..?" in comes the cue my ear had been expecting several seconds before. Drives me nuts. And damn them for chopping up the music from the bespin escape sequence with that useless new Darth Vader scene with his shuttle. Sure it looks pretty, but it's an absolutely useless change!
I hear you. I can't stand the "hacked and tracked" changes either (such as the climactic ESB ones - talk about jarring). What I was referring to though were 3 very short moments where Williams' original score was actually restored to the film, when previously Kerschner had either cut it or replaced it with other tracked music. Two of these occur around the middle of the film, when we see shots of the Imperial Fleet, and the other when Slave 1 is taking off from cloud city. I think these particular changes are beneficial.