I have also come to suspect that the reason why GL doesn't pay any attention to the O-OT anymore is because his wife at the time had a hand in editing it. She was the one who said that the Jabba scene was redundant in the first place. His real motive for some of the changes to ANH may have been driven out of this fact. She really must have hurt him alot after ROTJ.

Adam, I never said he didn't have a backstory for ANH, I said he wrote THE backstory after the first movie was sucessful. The backstory that he actually had for ANH was slighlty different than the one he had after the movie came out. Besides, what can you really contribute to this? you haven't even seen the O-OT pre- '97. You have no real frame of reference for this discussion.