Ah, there we have the lightsaber color debate again :P.
I'm fine with how the colors are. Personally I think a discussion on lightsaber color is only really needed when you change Dooku's character from a Sith to a rogue Jedi.
As for Jedi not being ones to allow individuality, I disagree. Take a look at some of the costumes, especially those of Luminara Unduli, Barris Offee and Aayla Secura, they are hardly Jedi like. If the Jedi were against individuality, they all would have worn the same.
But do we really want to portray the Jedi like that? The main problem with the Jedi is that they aren't very likable. The characters in the PT keep telling us how corrupt and ineffectual they Senate is, but the Jedi behave almost exactly the same. They seem stuck up and obsessed with rank and procedures, while being very ignorant of what is going on around them at the same time. That's hardly fitting for self proclaimed guardians of peace and justice.
In any edit, I'd like to see that changed. Make the Jedi more likable. For example, we could show some empty chairs in the Jedi Council as an easy way to show that there are Jedi out on missions. Also, removing the mystery of Kamino and the creation of the clones from the AOTC plot will go a long way to make the Jedi look less dumb.
How about we change the premise of AOTC to the Republic already having grown the army, with the Senate debating it's deployment? We could state in the opening crawl that in the ten years since TPM, the Republic has been raising its army to counter the threat of the Separatists. That way, we could sidestep the Kamino investigation, and as someone else here posted (I forgot who, but I thought it was a great idea), have Obi-Wan go to Geonosis straight away.
That way, we would have more time in the movie to develop Anakin and Padme's story. It would also make AOTC less dense with plotlines and concepts that go nowhere. We might also take some plot elements from ROTS and put them in AOTC, like the Jedi starting to distrust Palpatine. It will make them look smarter, and also explain why Mace is so on Palpatine's ass in ROTS.