Well, I just got done watching a MovieFone "unscripted" video interview where George and Hayden answer viewers' questions (take THAT SuperShadow! ha!). Lucas spells out that he meant to show that when you come back in the Force, you get to retain your physical appearance of how you were before you turned to the Dark Side, and that Anakin's "inner self" is of him as a young man like that. So that's how he wants it to be now. Of course in the same interview he says he "always intended" for the entire Star Wars saga to be about Anakin (cough, revisionism!). He admits that the fans didn't like him starting the trilogy with TPM having Anakin as a 9 year old, but it was what he wanted to do and that's that. He portrays his films as being "completed" and truly owned by him on DVD (the original trilogy) because that's how he wanted the films done. He explains he had to let others direct and work on ESB and ROTJ because he had to spend time building up the companies (of LucasFilm, etc) in order to build his independant company, and when he put the films on DVD he could "make them the way I wanted." Even with a few bits of Lucas revisionism in there, this was a pretty good interview, as it clears up some things in Lucas's thinking and finally gets him to admit certain details.

I still don't like what he did with Anakin, but at least he tells it to us straight. So if Obi-Wan or Yoda had turned to the Dark Side when they were young, and then turned back before death, they'd have gotten to appear young too as ghosts!

PS: The interview apparently was aired before the movie came out, since Hayden announces that the movie is coming out May 19th in theaters. It's about 15 minutes long in Quicktime format (at least the version I saw).