JiffyPopTart
Bree-Yark
Hmm....interesting....I guess? In my circles everyone still called it 3E and only clarified one way or another if asked in detail - and at my tables we only incorporated what we wanted from 3.5 and left most behind. I never even bought or looked at a 3.5 DMG or MM!
I guess for me, as some who likes to hack at the rules and feels that D&D is something that exists outside of the books or any one ruleset, 3.5 felt superfluous. I was addressing issues with 3.0 (or any edition) from day one.
In my group 3.0 was just the "Misprinted" version of a 3.5 book because the very limited lifespan of the former. We never really distinguished the two as being different rules systems, rather just viewed the .5 versions of the books as revised printings with 95% the same info.