whooooo 3.5.x import of 3000 products WORKED!!!!!
well, sort of....
still need to manually fix product option validations and for some reason, all subcategories are their own category now. i'll open a new thead for my issues
so it looks like product import is not bad; but how about user and orders? With the import it looks like all new productid's which i am guessing would not match up with any type of order history db conversion?