@Doctor M: I can assure you, if something is done to fix those two scenes, I will make sure no (or at least not much) detail will be sacrificed. One of the key things of this preservation is also to preserve detail and to bring out the detail that we thought lost.
AntcuFaalb will make some samples for me using different LD sources and who knows, maybe I can somehow combine them, and even combine them with the GOUT to get a clean result. I will try lots of stuff and see how it turns out.
And if we fix the 4-eyed trooper, I'm almost sure I'll just paste in the fixed trooper helmet and blend it in, to keep all the stuff around it preserved.
Don't worry, this won't be a sloppy preservation that's for sure!