I've updated the initial post to contain screen-shots sourced from an actual encode, instead of a bitmap off my time-line in premiere. So this is what it actually looks like and would look like on DVD. There's oodles of little flukes to go back and fix, but those are some screen-shots of where things have improved.
A friend of mine and I watched my ESB edit on his big screen TV. Obviously I saw all the places where I need to improve, but the overall experience of seeing something I made on somebody else's screen was awesome
. Plus I gave him the disc and he watched it again only days later with the isolated score, big Star Wars fan too. I've said this before in the midst of a large rant in another thread, but I just wanted to bring it up cause it really enlists some confidence to know these movies are salvageable. OT all the way. Peace dawgz. (plus offering free copy for a volunteer to create an original crawl in HD resolution)