Uriel- there is a 3.5 revisions thread with some of the info you want. I don't know how to link it, so here is a cut and paste of some helpful stuff
. Bards get 6 skill points per level, no longer suffer from arcane spell failure in light armor (but not Shields, Medium Armor, or Heavy Armor, and only with regard to Bard spells), and have increased musical abilities (3.5 Bard Songs are Countersong, Fascinate, Inspire Courage (give +1 on Atk and Damage and +1 vs Charm and Fear spells; increase by +1 at 8th level and every 6 levels thereafter), Inspire Competence, Suggestion, Inspire Greatness, Song of Freedom, Inspire Heroics, and Mass Suggestion. Song of Freedom is the equivalent of a Break Enchantments spell that he cannot target himself with. Inspire Heroics gives 1 Target +1/3 levels over 15th +4 on all Saves and +4 AC. Mass Suggestions uses the suggestion effect on every creature that he already has fascinated. Perform Ranks required are: Countersong: 3, Fascinate: 3, Inspire Courage: 3, Inspire Competence: 3, Suggestion: 6th Level and 9, Inspire Greatness: 9th Level and 12, Song of Freedom: 12th Level and 15, Inspire Heroics 15th level and 18; Mass Suggestion: 18th Level and 21). Bards swap spells at 5th level and every 3 levels thereafter.
Spell list:
0-LEVEL BARD SPELLS (CANTRIPS): Dancing Lights, Daze , Detect Magic , Flare , Ghost Sound, Know Direction , Light , Lullaby , Mage Hand , Mending , Message, Open/Close , Prestidigitation , Read Magic , Resistance , Summon Instrument
1st-LEVEL BARD SPELLS: Alarm, Animate Rope, Cause Fear , Charm Person
Comprehend Languages, Cure Light Wounds , Detect Secret Doors , Disguise Self , Erase
Expeditious Retreat , Feather Fall , Grease , Hypnotism , Identify , Lesser Confusion, Magic Mouth , Nystul's Magic Aura, Obscure Object, Remove Fear, Silent Image , Sleep , Summon Monster I , Tasha's, Hideous Laughter, Undetectable Alignment, Unseen Servant , Ventriloquism
2nd-LEVEL BARD SPELLS: Alter Self, Animal Messenger , Animal Trance , Blindness/Deafness , Blur , Calm Emotions, Cat's Grace , Cure Moderate Wounds , Darkness , Daze Monster , Delay Poison , Detect, Thoughts , Eagle's Splendor, Enthrall , Fox's Cunning, Glitterdust , Heroism , Hold Person , Hypnotic, Pattern , Invisibility , Locate Object , Magic Mouth , Minor Image , Mirror Image , Misdirection , Pyrotechnics , Rage , Scare , Shatter , Silence , Sound Burst , Suggestion , Summon Monster II , Summon, Swarm , Tongues , Whispering Wind
3rd-LEVEL BARD SPELLS: Blink , Charm Monster , Clairaudience/Clairvoyance , Confusion , Crushing Despair, Cure Serious Wounds , Dispel Magic , Displacement , Fear , Gaseous Form
Geas, Lesser ,Glibness, Good Hope, Haste , Illusory Script , Invisibility Sphere , Leomund's Tiny Hut , Major Image , Phantom Steed , Remove Curse , Scrying , Sculpt Sound , Secret Page See Invisiblity, Sepia, Snake Sigil, Slow, Speak with Animals , Summon Monster III
4th-LEVEL BARD SPELLS: Break Enchantment, Cure Critical Wounds, Detect Scrying , Dimension Door , Dominate Person , Freedom of Movement , Hallucinatory Terrain, Hold Monster , Invisibility, Greater , Legend Lore , Leomund's Secure Shelter , Locate Creature , Modify Memory , Neutralize Poison , Rainbow Pattern , Shadow Conjuration, Shout , Speak with Plants, Summon Monster IV, Zone of Silence
5th-LEVEL BARD SPELLS: Cure Light Wounds, Mass; Dispel Magic, Greater ; Dream ; False Vision ; Heroism, Greater; Mind Fog ; Mirage Arcana ; Mislead ; Nightmare ; Persistent Image ; Seeming; Shadow; Evocation; Shadow Walk; Suggestion, Mass; Summon Monster V
6th-LEVEL BARD SPELLS: Analyze Dweomer; Animate Object; Cat's Grace, Mass; Charm Monster, Mass ; Cure Moderate Wounds, Mass; Eagle's Splendor, Mass; Eyebite; Find the Path; Fox's Cunning, Mass ; Geas/Quest ; Heroes' Feast; Otto's Irresistible Dance ; Permanent Image ; Programmed Image ; Project Image ; Scrying, Greater; Shout, Greater; Summon Monster VI; Sympathetic Vibration; Veil
Bard Starting Weapons: All Simple + Longsword, Rapier, Sap, Short Sword, Shortbow, and whip.