I noticed that as well. Zekk should be about 2 years older than Jaina, but in Betrayal . . . yeah, not so much.

Speaking of Tales of the Jedi . . .

Uhm, the Star Wars Comics Companion just changed the dates on the Tales of the Jedi comics.

They were messed up in some of the earliest comics themselves, on the inside front cover, but that was fixed ages ago.

As recently as the NEC, the original TOTJ mini-series was at 4,000 BBY, The Freedon Nadd Uprising was at 3,998, DLOTS was at 3,997, and TSW was at 3,996 (6 months after DLOTS ended), then Redemption, ten years after TSW, was at 3,986.

Now, according to the Comics Companion (amusingly, also co-written by Dan Wallace), says that the original mini-series is at 4,000 and DLOTS is at 3,998 . . . Good so far . . .

But then DLOTS is at 3,992, TSW is at 3,991.5, and Redemption is at 3,981.5.

PLEASE tell me this was an accidental mistake, and we're not being given new official numbers that somehow give the Ketos six years, rather than one, to just sit around planning their coup. Not to mention how it plays with the relative dates for things that tie vaguely into the KOTOR games and comics . . .

But the game also claims that Ulic and some others (correct me if I'm wrong), died on Korriban.
Sounds like you're mistaking Ulic Qel-Droma, who died on Rhen Var, with his cousin Duron Qel-Droma whose death on Korriban was also depicted in Star Wars Tales #23.

Would TOTJ take precedence or would the game, since some things don't match up?
All continuity issues, regardless of source, are handled case-by-case.

Is Dressing a Galaxy considered canon? Specifically the Neimoidian name "Rute Gunnay"?
Yep. In the ROTS Visual Dictionary, this character was misidentified as Nute Gunray. The Rute Gunnay name was created as a nod as to why two characters might get confused.

Obi-Wan's spirit appears on Mustafar and interacts with several Jedi players. Is this considered to be canon?
Yep.

It certainly could be, though we would definitely give future authors leeway in whether they wanted to incorporate this information or not.

Groovy!

*Would it be easier to say that the Bpfasshi insurrection was drawn out long enough for the final Dark Jedi to have been stopped on Dagobah after Yoda went into exile? That would seem to fit Zahn's intent better, anyway, since Yoda already knew he had to prepare for Luke's training.*

Yeah, I like that fix a lot better.... Sorry, Tasty.

It means that Lucas's statement in the RotS script that Yoda stepped foot on Dagobah for the first time at the end of the movie means that stories that include Yoda on Dagobah beforehand, including his battle with the Bpfasshi Dark Jedi discussed in Vision of the Future, must be modified to fit this information. Currently, the solution they're using is that Yoda defeated that Jedi somewhere else in the Sluis Sector, and the Dark Jedi limped to Dagobah to die.

Tasty Taste:

You can't get too much on higher than the Ep III script.

No, you can't. I didn't know it was also in the script.

We now treat the Bpfaashi dark Jedi incident as taking place near Dagobah, not on Dagobah. Mortally wounded, the dark Jedi retreated to Dagobah where he died... or something like that.

Would it be easier to say that the Bpfasshi insurrection was drawn out long enough for the final Dark Jedi to have been stopped on Dagobah after Yoda went into exile? That would seem to fit Zahn's intent better, anyway, since Yoda already knew he had to prepare for Luke's training.

So does that mean all the details besides the Dagobah one are in continuity? That is, he helped train a stranded Yoda and revealed that he was Force-sensitive, etc., just that it all took place on another unidentified swampy planet?
It certainly could be, though we would definitely give future authors leeway in whether they wanted to incorporate this information or not.

Hmm . . . does this passage in the novel come from on high?
You can't get too much on higher than the Ep III script. We now treat the Bpfaashi dark Jedi incident as taking place near Dagobah, not on Dagobah. Mortally wounded, the dark Jedi retreated to Dagobah where he died... or something like that.

I don't know if publishing eras are part of the Holocron, or if this is better suited to the VIP thread, but:

How are Pre-Republic topics (like Xim) treated, publishing era-wise? Does the "Old Republic era" cover as far back as the continuity goes, including the times when there wasn't an Old Republic, or is there a "Pre-Republic era" that just hasn't been seen since there aren't any works set in that time period, or is there just no official era listed at all?

The existence of such character is part of continuity, but his appearance on Dagobah would not be, since the time of Ep III is the first time that Yoda ever sets foot on Dagobah as noted in the Revenge of the Sith novelization.
So does that mean all the details besides the Dagobah one are in continuity? That is, he helped train a stranded Yoda and revealed that he was Force-sensitive, etc., just that it all took place on another unidentified swampy planet?

Anyway, if all the honorable mentions as well as the winners were approved by LL, does it follow that is actually canon, since it's not directly overruled by another source? Or does the "no Yoda backstory" decree nix this immediately--thus making this story an exception?

I've known about this N'Kata since the issue in which he was first published, and it's actually not a bad entry to be included into canon as an episode of Yoda's history. But to be honest, I'd be kind of mad to find out it's been canon this whole time and just hiding under our collective nose.