boris, you don't get it and I don't think you ever will. Cleaning up a movie and doing color correction is not the same thing as changing a scene (Han vs Greedo), adding a scene (Jabba in ANH), or adding frivolous items to a scene. Sure, most of the frivilous items don't change the story, so why put them there? The Han/Greedo scene does change Han's character, no matter how much people say it doesn't.

The point is that doing a straight digital restoration and claiming that the 1997 SEs are the same thing as a digital restoration is just plain false.

You're right about one thing though. GL should release the 1997 SE for the people that want that version. Maybe one day we'll get a giant box set that'll include every version of Star Wars ever released. Of course, Lucas will have to rerelease it every year as he makes more and more changes.