Great info... but it's nice to know that we have a little Sex Sells thing going on here... 'Open All Night' The album before the album!!!

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I wouldn't assume that... If someone saw, Why Aren't You Dead on a list, they could say that morphed into I'll Sleep When I'm Dead which obviously isn't true

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Sorry, but I don't see the similarity between these two. Also, the sound of the band is totally different, which is why I would go with RDs 1994 theory for the time being...

No, the verses of "Water Into Wine" are essentially what we have in In These Arms nowadays. Jon and David had been working on that song and I remember Jon saying that the verses were great, but they never got the chorus working. And then Richie came over with a solo title he had in his mind, called "If You Were In These Arms Tonight" and they basically fixed the chorus.
In an interview for the 2010 Greatest Hits album they told the story again.
From 5:14 onwards:

Thanks, I remembered there was a story about that song, but couldn't remember what it was. Strange I could've missed In These Arms on that sheet, since it's one of the best songs of the album ;-)

EDIT: and concerning the video: god, Jon still looked so young and fit compared to today, whereas Richie looked like sh*t...

That's all I needed to read... I moved both of these under the Open All Night sessions... and I already had moved it within my collection too...

For starters...I think Obie is very trustworthy... Not only does his list contain years but it also contains little tidbits. Ie recording locations...

I also think the vocals alone dictate the difference... even though there is only a 2 Year Gap, there is a very distinct difference between the two sounds... The KTF tracks seem much more polished and complete, where as the Open All Night tracks are move vocal driven and instrumental... Jon almost comes across like he's screaming at times and that is evident in both tracks....

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I do have one reservation and this might have been discussed in other topics but I think that most, if not all of the vocals for Miss 4th Of July were rerecorded... They don't match a 1992 JBJ at all...

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Agreed, sounds more like post 2000 JBJ.

There surely were some late overdubs done to some of the Box Set tracks and I tend to believe that these vocals (or maybe the entire version) might stem from these sessions. I agree that the voice sounds like Jon in the early 2000's. Maybe the old recording was either damaged or they just had laid down a track with a guide vocal line and never fully fleshed it out, so they decided to honor this great song by giving it a proper production.

EDIT: Two other scenarios I've just been thinking of:
1. Along with Thief of Hearts, Last Man Standing etc. they might've tried to re-do the song for a possible inclusion on TLFR, but dropped the plan after the recording sessions had gone "more left".

2. During the time of endless demos for Crush they might've considered using that tune since they weren't certain of the direction they wanted to head into. They definitely had a look into their vaults back then since another KTF outtake, Starting All Over Again, got re-recorded in 2000 as well.

Starting All Over Again is just a different vocal take isn't it? The guide vocals I seem to recall - Obie thought they were better than the final demo ones. Wrongly IMO.