Blackjack said:
Where are we now with the EU? about 50 years after RotJ?

how long will it be before we have han luke and leia sitting in the nursing home sniping at each other?

Actually, if I'm not mistaken, the Legacy series takes place 100 years after ROTJ. From JediNet.com:

The future of Star Wars is here in an all-new series set more than a century after Return of the Jedi and the New Jedi Order!

The Jedi Temple is attacked, an Emperor is betrayed, and the Sith are born anew! A lot can happen in a hundred years, but all of the above happens just in this first issue! Not since Luke Skywalker first stepped aboard the Millennium Falcon has the galaxy seemed like such a vast, exciting, dangerous place!

See, they had to take the series that far out in order for people to accept that they wouldn't see Luke, Han, or Leia.