The main reason for the new intro was to explain what had happened, but also to correct the horrible mispronounciation of Martyranny's Collective Pulse, which I butchered throughout the original episode. "Marty-Ranny" remains to this day the worst botched intro in the history of Radio Free Charleston.
Below the video you will find the original production notes from The Popcult Blog, followed by the notes for the 2010 reconstruction. As always, treat the links as some sort of game where only a few of them still work.