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Lastings Milledge got TERRIBLE jumps.  Until this year, Adam Jones was getting pretty darned terrible jumps in the OF.  For all the ballyhooing about Hamilton, I don't much care for his jumps in CF either.  Juan Pierre, for all of his track speed awsomeness is a DREADFUL defensive center fielder and has been his entire career specifically because he has a noodle arm and gets terrible jumps and routes on the gappers.  Ken Griffey Jr., in his prime, was a lousy route-runner even though he looked all smooth and cool out there...he was also bad at defensive positioning and gave up too many singles to cut off the doubles.
There's more to CF defense than speed.  You need speed, but the outfield game isn't quite as one-dimensional as you're making it sound...you need to have a minimum-standard arm (this is part of the reason Damon and Bernie Williams failed in CF over the long haul), you need to be intelligent with defensive positioning (the achilles of Griffey, Milledge, and in a recent Devil Rays contest...Kapler), you need good outfield instincts and the aggressive ability to run to the spot rather than having to adjust to the ball flight, and you need to balance aggression with risk aversion (One of Ichiro's many strengths...he doesn't dive or slide for balls he determines have a low probability of being caught...he's maligned for this but it's probably better for the defense).
And yes...I think the little things that are not raw track speed can and do make big differences.