blast, I had something written in reply to baron's last comment, but I got an error page from the forum when I tried posting it, not sure that's ever happened before.
Anyway, what I said was that it's funny how baron should bring this up:
"I think Lucas may have actually thought it had a chance at a Blade Runner-type rediscovery with teenagers or something."
because that's pretty much exactly what happened with the friend I was rooming with at the time. I walked in and he was watching the single disc version on his computer with headphones. He still thinks the cgi is less jarring/out-of-place than it is in Star Wars.