Regarding Jabba's palace... I feel like Ady will have to cut Sy Snootles out entirely. Of course the SE version looks like some bullshit from Shrek, but the original puppet was beyond awful as well; I can't see it allowing for convincing 'cantina-ization'.
But we call all agree that Lapti Nek, is superior to, or at least less distracting than the abomination that is 'Jedi Rocks'.