I'll admit you are bringing doubt into my mind, but the American edition was a different cut to any other version simply due to the sorcerer/philosopher difference (I'm in the UK so I saw the international version), maybe a mistake was made in editing, seems unlikely I'll admit, but I was bothered by remembering this scene before I ever read about it.

I'd like to get to the bottom of this, from what you say the american DVD is the american theatrical version, but maybe the international version was slightly different. I'd love to find a bootleg or screener made of the international version. If anyone has one sitting around can you take a look at it, as I assume it wouldn't have been looked at since the DVD came out.