yes, i love it :)  i upgraded to cs4 a while ago but only just tried the 3d painting about a month ago and ended up playing in it for a couple of weeks, it's SO much fun!!!

it's NOT the same as the "3d" in cs3. this is direct painting ON the object and seeing the result ON the objest, not some 2d painting to 3d preview like in cs3. 
(maybe in cs5 we'll get rigging and morphs enabled too, that would be cool... dreams)

it can handle layered UVs fine, each material works on its own .psb file which you can open and put into your regular .psd file.

• import your object, no mess, no fuss about modifying uvs or materials just for cs4 8)
• look in the 3d pane and select each material and load an empty texture file at the correct dimensions to start on. the default is too small, like 512x512pixels iirc, while I like to work on 4096x4096 ... you will see the difference pretty early on if you forget to do this.
• paint away with your favourite and familiar photoshop tools and brushes!!! <--- this is what makes it so good for me. i don't have to learn another app with different tools and brushes, presets, texture resources, etc.  i've been working with ps (and painter) for sooo many years, they're a second skin.  makes it totally worth the adobe lifetime tithing and/or firstborn fee  chuckles
• you can choose to paint for diffuse, bump, etc... have only been doing diffuse and bump so far so i can't say how the others go.

i love it... hugs little cs4 box that came with no printed manual but i don't miss it anyway

so, i'll stop now... heehee

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a sweet disorder in the dress kindles in clothes a wantoness,
do more bewitch me than when art is too precise in every part