Excellent and eloquent post steb74 - I think you've summed up the way a lot of the posters in this thread feel about the quality of the work ABC has put into this edition of the soundtrack.
Pardon my ignorance here, but is the take 2 definitive version completed? I thought there were still some compression/uploading issues to be squared away and it has yet to be uploaded. If I'm wrong, please let me know - I'm looking forward to the revisions.