The Hyperdrive on the MF wasn't working, so they COULDN'T have used hyperdrive. Good call motti_soL. When I was thinking about it, I was thinking when you see them speed off, it meant they went into hyperspace. But, that would be impossible otherwise they would have used it to escape the Star Destroyer earlier instead of flying into an astroid field. I completely forgot that...wow...
I take back my earlier grievance.
And now I post a new one...
In the new espisodes (I and II), you see the Jedi twirl their lightsabers all the time. A prime example of this is at time 1:54:10 in AOTC (I just watched it). However, if you think about the physics of a lightsaber, this is impossible (It's actually explained in a Star Wars encyclopedia). It's simple physics really. A LIGHTsaber's blade is made of light. Light has no mass, and therefore has no weight. Therefore, it's impossible to do that really cool looking twirl thing with a lightsaber because the only part of it with any mass is the handle. Go figure that one out...