I'm 99.999999999999% sure that's the same bootleg used for Starkiller/MBJ/TWC326. Mono mix? Check. Virtually static cropping? Check. Horrible quality from who knows how many generations of copying? Check.

As for that last part, there is no version of the film which reverses those two scenes. I'm watching TWC326 right now, "Come on R2" comes first just like in every other version ever.

I don't think he's talking about that specific bootleg. I think it's a faulty memory along the lines of "Early prints didn't have the mouse droid scene" or "Early prints had Luke missing with the grappling hook" or "Early prints had the Biggs scenes."

Back in the Usenet-and-VHS-trading days of 1995, still relatively few people had seen that bootleg, and no other versions had yet surfaced in the fan community, so there was still rampant speculation and hearsay.

With all the sources we've accumulated in 2012, any claims of missing scenes, additional scenes or different ordering of scenes have been disproven. If there's anything we haven't yet discovered, it's going to be something like the X-wing takeoff, a subtle variation in the versions we already have.

So in short, no, there is absolutely no truth to that statement. Myth busted, case closed.