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I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be a dick - what you've been able to do there is pretty amazing - in my original comment, I just wanted to say that the difference can't be properly appreciated at this resolution.
And I actually agree that preserving print quality is too low of a goal for a good restoration but since you have multiple prints, couldn't you just compare them and see, which flaws (in this particular case misalignment) they have in common and preserve those - In this particular case, the misalignment of separate elements could only have been introduced during the compositing and therefore was definitely a part of the original negative of the movie and any misalignment introduced at any other stage of the process would have to be consistent over all the elements, so if you looked at a Kodak or Eastman print and the over-all misalignment wasn't there, you could safely assume, that it wasn't on the o-neg and was introduced in the I.B. printing process and if it was there on three or more different prints, it should be quite safe to assume that it was on the o-neg.
This kind of scrutiny wouldn't of course be normal for a standard restoration but you set the bar so high with the level of scrutiny that you're doing for your project, that doing this doesn't seem that far fetched and, since as a result you could do a single alignment of the entire frame and arrive at something actually closer to the o-neg, it actually seems easier than rotoscoping and re-aligning all the elements separately.