With the Dooku going off to get revenge on the sith for the death of Qui-Gon at the end of The Phantom Menace idea somebody threw out there, if that really seems like an important plot point you could throw it into the Ep.2 crawl that Qui-Gon's former master left the Jedi Order to seek revenge and has just recently resurfaced leading the seperatist movement. But I suppose if the point of that at the end of Ep.1 would just have been to make it a film that could stand on its own, then my suggestion really doesn't add up to much.

I see a bunch of ideas running through here that I can't imagine anybody here having the skill or technology to do, but what ever becomes of this I am sure it will be interesting if it is ever completed. However, with things like Maul becoming Grevious, it is going a bit more than above and beyond in filling plot holes in the saga. I don't think it is going to become the definative version (although I would loved to be surprised) of the saga we will all wish to show our kids for the sake of them not thinking their dad (or mom) is a looser for liking such crap. Whatever comes out of it, I'll be looking forward to seeing it.