I read somewhere that McCallum had said that the DVD may very well contain the full four hours of scenes that the original script encompassed. Which includes the scenes with Padme's family and all the other scenes mentioned as well.
I also noticed on some Behind-The-Scenes footage that they shot something in the lightsabre fight that Dooku was also holding TWO sabres at one point.... I wonder what that is.
(Thinks)
Ah, sod it, I'll wait for the DVD. Incidentally in the Behind the Scenes footage I saw Dooku lose one of those two sabres, either pulled from him or he throws it at something. Either THAT or they shoot the bits where you pull a sabre towards you in reverse and that shot was actually him pulling it to him.