OK, I'm liking these ideas, C3PX. Although I did like my idea of Padme following Anakin to the volcanic area and witnessing him killing the Nemoidians. And her subsequent death. But you're right that allowing her to live will eliminate the contradiction with Leia.

What I do want to make sure happens, though, is that we have some kind of sequence where we see the effects of the Dark Side on Anakin's personal life. The bars, the drinking, the neglecting his wife, and so on. Of course, this can only be effective (and heart-wrenching) if we set up that Anakin is a good, loving person beforehand. Before he starts being bad, as it were. It is always horrifying to the audience when you set up that someone is a good guy, and then you show them doing bad things. There is no transition in ROTS. I know a lot of people have made fun of this, but it's true. Anakin is a good person all the way up until the fight with Windu, and then he's off to go killing children. Obviously this is stupid. We need some steps in-between, more seduction by Palpatine, an illustration of how Anakin is changing (and becoming bad). Then, he makes the critical decision to intervene in the fight with Windu. Then, we see a sequence or montage of him killing Jedi. This sequence would end with him beheading the Christopher Lee Jedi and having Palpatine laugh in his chair. Only then could we possibly show him killing the children.

So I agree that this should be about a good man that made the wrong choices, but I don't like George's idea that Anakin was the victim and he did it all out of love. Darth Vader picked the Dark Side because he liked it and it was FUN. And he got immediate gratification and powers he never knew he had.

So the list (as to why this is better than the existing PT story) so far is:

-No contradiction when Ben says, "That boy is our last hope."
-No contradiction when Leia remembers her mother
-No plot hole where Anakin comes from Tatooine and Luke gets sent to Tatooine
-No midichlorians
-Anakin doesn't build C3PO
-No CG yoda whatsoever. As originally conceived, Yoda is the little man on the side of the road that you listen to, and then find out he's not who you thought he was
-No Chewbacca/Yoda relationship
-No Jar-Jar
-No General Grievous
-No whining Anakin
-We lose a myriad of other problems and bad memories associated with the existing PT