you know, it would be pretty easy just using the SE restored masters, cutting out the Special Edition stuff and restoring around roughly less than 20 minutes of original non-SE footage done like the SE's (frame-by-frame) and simply adding them into the SE version, and mixing in the old soundtrack!

there is absolutely no kind of HUGE labor into this process, theoratically... and being nice to the fans (who started the phenomenon AND gave George all that money) by releasing great quality ANAMORPHIC DVD with just less than 20 minutes of non-SE footage needed to be THX-ified... mostly it's just cutting out SE junk.

right? Easy...

that's pretty mean what they did, by the way.