yep.
I have done a number of side by side comparrisons of the Sci-Fi channel rips to the ontherunvideo.com and the UK VHS rleases (heck even the official DVD's) and the Sci-Fi channel releases always have less footage.
I am sure this was down for two reasons...
a) for time
b) because there is a lot of painful moments in both series :)
Truth be told, the edits aren't that bad and actually kind of move the story along. Comparable to most fan edits.
As far as the other person working on this a year ago...he kind of fell off the map. And that was what sort of what motivated me to start stockpiling all of the videos that I do have. This set needs to be done one of these days and we need to make sure that we have the best possible transfer when we do it.