It's cool frank678, I wasn't happy about my results on that saber shot either. The thing is that you are quite limited when working in YUV colorspace, and going from YV12 to RGB back to YV12 again is a lossy process, so I prefer to avoid it. It's one thing to color correct a single image in Photoshop for example but when working with video in YUV colorspace it gets a little more tricky.
Personally I don't think you should obsess too much over these timing issues, we know our Star Wars and how it should look but when you're starting to bring yourself into the "exact" shades of hues, color temperatures, saturation and contrast you will never find the 100% real answer, it looked slightly different in various theaters even in '77, there's even minor differences found between IB Tech prints. I understand your frustration, but just take a look at Puggo's 16mm prints and look past some of the fading in there, that's pure Star Wars... at least to me.
Chewie, I actually color corrected it quite a bit, I'm sorry if I fooled you, it was done mainly as a test for myself to see if this source could look decent enough. The actual LD timing doesn't differ compared to the other pressings I've seen.
Memorex, I will try to post some comparisons, the different framing wasn't really what interested me per se, I had hoped it would not lack the huge amount of frames this telecine is infamous for. And I'm sorry to disappoint but it looks rather similar :( why the slightly different framings I don't know. Sorry if I gave you any false hopes. Fortunately we have lots of other beautiful projects going on around here.