Ben Danger has kindly let me use his idea, so here's an uber-rough version of the new opening:
https://vimeo.com/65283353 (password: wordpass)
(excuse the jerkiness, not quite sure how that happened)
The three changes: new crawl with proper alignment, new lightsaber scene, Yoda death scene no longer broken up into two.
Now I need to figure out how to do the special effects for that first scene...