Well, there's been great email discussion regarding my personal dislike of D&D 3.5 rules. I really don't want to have anything to do wtih them, but it seems like I'm the only person that doesn't see an advantage to using those rules.
Might this be a case of each member of our group assuming that all of the other members wanted to use the new rules, even though they did not want to themselves? And as a result, they suggested using the new rules to appease the other players? And as a matter of suggesting, they simply went out and bought the 3.5 books, figuring that's where we would end up anyway? And now everyone has the new books already and wouldn't want to go back for having wasted the money on the new book? I am so delusional.