Oh, and it means that I can wipe Jar Jar out of my canon or give him a completely different personality if I so wish. According to my canon, there is no contradiction because everything is just a different interpretation or an embellishment of the "real" story. So details don't matter, and I can enjoy two separate EU books that completely contradict each other and include both in my personal canon. And of course the prequels were just a shoddy telling of the story, they aren't the story itself.

So to sum it up, I just view Star Wars as a telling of a story, not the literal facts about what happened in the Star Wars universe. And of course that is just to serve my own imagination...not because I've gone wacko and think this is all real :)