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I'm think that "Jawas of Doom" was published first, but that makes no difference. Take notice of the Jaster Mereel incident.

Bossk nor Dengar died on the sail barge.

Fett doesn't have these. He's not like the rest of us poor mortal sods.

The Jaster Mereel incident, you weren't around for. 

It was the debate over which backstory for Fett was canonical, the original Jaster Mereel background introduced briefly in one of the Tales, and the whole clone background.  It's long over, draco's point was that age does not determine canon anymore  (though a compromise was made between the original Jaster background and the clone one.)

Well, technically Lucas has stated on many occasions that the only canon part of SW is the movies.

I have read the same thing here: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Canon . If that is where you recieved your information, do not be so trusting.

Yes, but he must sign off on all Star Wars books for legal reasons as well as cononical(word?) ones. As long as a book fits in with the basic principles he has layed out, he will accept it. He is not deciding what is canon and what is non-canon. He is just making sure that the books don't mess with his universe or interfere with something he wants to be held sacred.

Ex. It was probably a big deal when they killed off Chewie... and therefore they porbably had to run it by him a few different ways before he signed off on it. On the other hand, killing minor characters doesn't really matter, even if it screws with the canon.

I'm glad you asked...because in every Star Wars novel before the New Jedi Order, the main characters would always escape some nefarious scheme, superweapon, or Sith, without a scratch.  The main characters would come so close to death, and at the end of the book/trilogy, everything's fine, everyone's okay. 
The authors of NJO decided they wanted to set that era apart from the rest of the novels, so they decided the best way to do that was "shatter the bubble", by getting rid of a basically useless character...Chewie was just popular/recognized enough, and didn't contribute anything to the story other than being pretty much a big pet to the Solos.

Because Chewie couldn't talk, ergo he couldn't contribute anything to the story...and they did kill one of the kids later on.   

Yep, it's Vector Prime...the first one.

Bossk is still alive.

Jabba had Dengar strapped Dengar in a canyon, called something like the the "the Wind's Tooth." The wind picks up small sediments, which, moving at that speed, will cut any unfortunate victim of their wrath. Dengar was rescued by the Tusken Raiders.

Thank you, that was what I was thinking of.

Last I heard, he was aboard the Jubilee Wheel when the Vong destroyed it.