That is good news! I hope it was truly a PAL transfer and not some sort of kooky conversion from NTSC. Stranger things have happened in Laserdisc land!

I just looked at the DV tape of that crappy 16mm transfer I did a while back. (As I needed some blank space at the end for capturing some clips for another project.) The scene with the cops tasering THX while he's naked with LUH comes before the trial and medical exam scenes, as it does in the Italian cut. (And no obvious signs of splices.) Can't believe I didn't notice that before.