Hey CE3K is a pretty important film... if the Criterion disc is the only way to reconstruct the original theatrical version, perhaps you can talk to the X0 folks who are doing Star Wars.

I doubt they want to add anything else to their plate, but perhaps they'd be willing to use their uber laser disc player to output some raw video you can work with to re-edit and clean up.

That X0 machine REALLY makes a huge difference in the quality of video it pumps out. Probably eliminate the dot crawl altogether.