adywan, is there any chance you could send me the clip of Obi-Wan in the cantina, so I could give it a shot and try to manually remove the shadows?
You would be better off working with the original footage for this because the new glow would cause a problem when removing the shadows.

Gosh, I hope there is an eventual NTSC version of this.

Yes, there will be. Not too long after the PAL version is released
It's a pal thing - it threw me off at first too. For some reason everyone in Europe likes their movies fast.

I'd rather have the speed-up any day than have jerky movement cause by extra frames and an inferior picture resolution.

In an ideal world i'd prefer 24fps with the PAL Video resolution, but that ain't gonna happen.