Wow. This thread touches on a lot of great points that I totally agree with. Especially:
The thing that works for me is to look at the PT as almost EU, so you can take it with a grain of salt and accept it or not.
In my mind, I've just completely separated the prequels from the OT. To me, they're like mindless SW-spin off video games (which isn't exactly false... lol) and crappy EU at best, so I don't consider them canon. I just focus on the OT, and how they're simply the three little movies that I grew up loving and still love to this day. The last prequel I saw was ROTS once in the theater, and I haven't seen any of them since then. I just kind of act like they don't exist. LOL.
There's also solace in knowing that 20 years from now, the OT is what people and film historians will still remember, not the prequels...