Mike for all your arguments, please remember that you are not involved in the original trilogy preservation. At best, you are involved in creating the "Special Mverta Edition". It pains me to see this forum being used for projects like yours. If Lucas himself came to this forum and started a thread titled "The 2007 Special Edition - The Official Thread", he would not be doing anything different to you. I understand that you are compiling these movies how you see them, but that is not what preservation is. Enid Blyton's Noddy books did not have to be modified by others. But people came along and used the exact same argument you're using now, which is "the noddy books were never meant to be raciest, so therefore removing a raciest character is in the best interests of the book".

Please, for the love of individuality, let it go. I would not have made the noddy books the same way - I wouldn't have made them at all! So therefore since I had no part in creating them what right would I have to re-make them now? What gives you this right Mike? Serving the best interests of SW fans? Preservation? Or is it that you are saying, now, "these imperfections are not how I would have intended the movie to look if I had made it, therefore I am editing it"? Yes, your version might look better to you. But then this forum wasn't created to make the best looking version, it was created so that people might use it in their efforts to create the best possible preservation. And this project does not fall into that category.