I go with Bingowings on this. There are some fans who want to rewrite reality in the way that Lucas is accused of doing - ergo, "when people think of Star Wars they think of the OT". Maybe some people, but by no means all.

And in the way that certain plot points of the PT enriched the OT for some, I think that Bingowings's ideas for how Padme could feature in the story of the new trilogy would certainly enrich plot points of the PT (a trilogy where Padme's character was seriously un-developed).