Just want to point out that "lossless" isn't the only important point of the new audio tracks from Hairy_hen, he is using more professional tools this time around which have reportedly been giving much better audio channel separation on the matrix'd surround (reconstruction of the 7 channel sound the '93 mix was downmixed from). So, the new audio mix should sound much better than just a simple bitrate difference. And still, if the source happens to be analog rather than PCM, there's still a point in putting out his improved track as lossless, so as to keep from losing even more information to additional compression (you lose a little bit every time you reencode "lossy").

Personally, I'm really looking forward to it, and would like to see the 2.5 ship with it in all mediums, if we can get word from Hairy_hen on the status of the new tracks...