Not that I agree with what I'm going to say, but I think Lucas continues to tinker with the OT simply because he feels it isn't perfect in his mind.
Think about, other then CGI Yoda, what has he changed in the PT on the BluRay release? Nothing, so he thinks the PT is exactly what he wants portrayed on screen. He continues to tinker with the OT thinking this will jive perfectly when a moviegoer watches them 1-6.
I actually find it more sad WHAT he changes, rather then the fact that he continues to change the movies every few years. When I see Jedi Rocks, or Greedo shooting first, or Vaders NOOOO, it shows how bad a filmaker George has become. It shows that he is well past his prime, because none of these changes are even remotely good.
It's like watching the fatter Elvis in 1977 when he was a shell of himself, or Brett Favre last year after retired and unretired 3 times and getting knocked around at 41 years old. Its like looking at Joan Rivers with all that plastic surgery, and you know that the younger, funnier Joan Rivers is somewhere in that face.
I'm sure there is a part of Lucas that is getting off about pissing the old fans off, but I firmly believe that he is just doing what he feels makes the movies better. Just look at the PT, that is HIS 100% vision. And how did that turn out?