I´m tired now (Well, its 11pm now here). Everything which I have to say about the original movies, the special editions, etc. I did in the last answer to you. Read it carefully, since it answers a lot of your questions you are giving to me in your last post above this post.
It all comes down to the fact that we both don´t know GL personally. I wrote about what I think his motivation is, you wrote your interpretation about the situation.
The only thing I see is that these movies deserve a far better treatment than treating them as "waste" products from the past. The only thing I can do is to compare this situation with how other movies, far less popular than Star Wars are treated. By Director´s which also claim to have an "artistic vision". And I am pretty confident in my opinion that everything which you and other GL supporters are constantly citing, becomes rididulous in this context. Learn about the film preservation like I did, since it´s a fascinating subject which really interests me, and you´ll see that most claims about the OOT being very costly to restore properly is just marketing talk by Lucasfilm. Read the Star Wars thread at www.hometheaterforum.com/htf in the DVD section. Read the first pages where Robert Harris, who restored a lot of films in his career, is very confident that the OOT could be restored to its original state without investing tons of money. If you don´t know Robert Harris, Google and you´ll see what I mean. There is no technical reason why the OOT couldn´t be restored again, it could have been done for this DVD release, and Lucasfilm would still have made a nice profit. They easily would have won the heart of ALL fans. No bad press and outcry about this no-effort.
In the end, for me, the evidence supporting the theory that Lucas has long gone stopped listening to his fans, and is trying to get as much $ out as possible from his franchise, by constantly revising his films, is much more obvious than your claims about "artistic vision". Real artists don´t behave like that. And this is the problem when you are a die-hard Star Wars fan instead of being a film fan in general: your lack of perspective on those matters. You can only see everything in GL own context. You believe him blindly. You even start to fill out these huge logic gaps for him created by him and his ridiculous argumentation.
This huge fan preservation community isn´t there for no reason. This loud critical tone against the prequel trilogy isn´t there for no reason. When do you start to open your eyes and realize that a lot of things have gone wrong in the past? Can you allow yourself to be critical?