EDIT: Oops, I seem to be a bit late to the party. This was in response to Ken's post 7780:
Why are you telling us this? The changes do take away my enjoyment of the films. Big time! Why should I care about your enjoyment of the films any more then you care about mine?
And there was an easy way to please everyone who likes STAR WARS. Because all those people who liked STAR WARS before 1997 liked the original versions, an easy way to please all of the would have been not to make any changes. What is so hard to understand about that?