The scene where they talk about their ‘first time,’ as it comes across, seems weird to me. It’s not a big deal, though. I’ll think about that one, though, as it might not be a bad idea to put it back in, especially since the lead-in scene transition is the same as AOTC anyway. (We aren’t coming into the scene from a different scene from AOTC, now that I reshuffled the scenes to include the extended arrival on Naboo.)
At any rate, the cow tick scene is in because I believe it functions much better given how the film has progressed up to that point. It’s a nice parallel or foreshadow of Anakin taming the beast in the arena and (sort of) saving Padme as a result. Editing gives the scene a different feel than it had in AOTC, with the solution being to fix the film around it rather than just cut out the “bad parts.”