We have actually had some interesting indepth discussions on this in here before. Once with a fellow who swore he had seen those very scenes with his own eyes, and was irritated to be told that he had been imagining things, I think, it has been so long ago my details are fuzzy.I'd do the search function to try to find it for you, but the new forum's search function always just pisses me off, so I will let somebody else do it for you. I believe the particular post I am referring to began with a poster asking where he could get his hands on a cut of Empire Strikes Back with extended Hoth scenes he remembered from when he saw it in the theater, or he was looking for a cut of Star Wars where Luke swings the grabbling hook and misses the first time and has to try again, I don't remember which one the conversation started out with, but I think both were discussed.

There is absolutely no evidence to such scenes having ever been in the film, but very strong evidence to the contrary. Your own post went into a great deal of detail on it actually. It seems people either read the scene in the novel or the story book, or heard about it from friends, it became stuck in their head, then later upon rewatching it they were surprised to see the scene missing. I have had this happen with movies before, I'd remember something happening in the film, and be confused when it didn't happen, then realize that it is from another similar movie, or a movie with the same actors in it, or a parady of that particular movie. Memories are tricky things.