Baronlando said:

danny_boy said

My opinion is that when the original negative was washed back in 1995 it was re-assembled without the insertion of any new material

I hope so, but is that based on any specific info?

Unfortunately only my very literal interpretation of this statement!

That meant dissecting the original Star Wars negative, washing it, and then reassembling it. "That made everybody suck in their breath, " Kennedy says, recalling the stressfull situation. "Thankfully, Robert Hart, the neg cutter on the second and third films, came in to put the negative back together

http://www.theasc.com/magazine/starwars/articles/sped/ssws/pg1.htm

There is no mention in the above paragraph of any insertions of new negative(featuring CGI effects).

Also inserting new negative into the original negative would be counter productive----it would mean that you would have to run the entire original negative(with the new inserts) through a pin registered mechanism in order to print off a new 1st generation interpositive......running the risk of doing even more damage to that original neg.(much like the situation with the Godfather)

Much easier to go back to the original negs(that were not part of the original negative---confusing ain't it!) and use those for your new(as it would have been in 1997) special edition negative....combining these new negs(featuring the CGI) with 3rd generation internegative material.

Sorry I know it is infuriatingly confusing.....when I get time I will do a pictorial representation which should help to better illustrate the points I am trying to make.