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The ELH left so much to be desired. I don't know how WotC didn't readdress it in 3.5 except in bits and pieces here and there.
Yeah, I'm currently going through the ELH monsters trying to make them a bit more, well, epic, which is how I came to ask these questions.

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There are even errors in the errata.
Gah, really? What are those?

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One of the biggest defenses epic monsters had was their DR, which was pathetically simplified and royally hamstrung in the "update". I highly doubt due diligence was done for playtesting the original material or 3.5 updates.

I've also made a post or to about the Hecatoncheires myself so you questions and concerns are shared here. When I DM again I definitely intend to house-rule the DR system back to 3.0, at least for monsters/NPCs.
With DR it depends how much your players are optimizers. Against a reasonably high-OP group 3.5 DR might as well not be there, but against a low-OP group 3.0 DR means that some characters can't hurt them at all. Our group is what I'd probably call the lower end of mid-OP, so the 3.5 DR is about right, with a few exceptions (the Hecatoncheires being one of them; DR20 against a 57th-level party, really?).