Heh, thank you QC department for your input. I think this just goes to show that I probably shouldn't put up anything until it's finished. The color correction process makes a world of difference, and you'll see that once I have the finished shots. Now to address the issues:

- Ghosting. I'd say maybe 5-10 pixels to the right of a sharp edge, like the old guy, or Leia in the last pic, and at both edges. It's subtle, but it's there. Must be an artifact of de-ghosting (ironically)? I don't recall noticing this right away on your previous shots.
I can say almost without a doubt that it's a direct result of the deghosting. I'm not 100% fixed on using the current method, and I hope that Laserschwert will chime in with a better one. Perhaps the VDub filters he was talking about will work better than this AVISynth function. This will definitely be looked at closely as I believe it's my #1 problem at the moment.

- Grain. This is tough, because the source is so grainy. Maybe C3D will help (as you suggest). That, or something else. But I think you're right to try.
It will. The grain doesn't look too bad on the original capture, but the sharpening filters have a way of making it more visible.

- Colour. Yeah, I know you're not finished. The colour isn't so bad, but it seems like there should be more of it -- the saturation's a little low, in my opinion.
I agree 100%. In my color correction process, I adjust saturation, individual color gain, and contrast levels for each shot. This is the biggest difference maker, and unfortunately the biggest time consumer. All that has been done so far is a color shift to remove excess yellow and black level enhancement.

- Combing. The edges seem to be combed. Most noticable in the first shot (edge of the Tatooine blue halo). Don't know how or why, or how to fix it (short of cropping it off!).
This is common on a lot of captures if you'll notice. I believe it's the capture card that does it and there's nothing you can do about it but crop it off. If you're capture card doesn't yeild similar results, it's probably because it clips off the edges. Before I hacked the capture settings, this is what my card was doing. It was actually clipping a good 20-40px off of each side.

Edit: I hope I'm not coming off as sounding condecending here. I value everyone's input and appreciate your feedback.