They were showing the '97's at the AFI in Silver Spring, Maryland back during the summer of '05.
Honestly, I think Jim Ward's comment back in '04 about them now having a "digital negative" is kinda laughable. A 1080p master of a cinemascope film is sure as hell not a digital negative.
The past seven years bears that out. Has there yet been an actual theatrical projection of the '04 master??? Sticking the dvds in a player at a convention doesn't count.