A few more things.I have changed from raw + jpg to just raw. I see now that large memory cards are useful. I could put thousands of jpegs on the 8GB card but only a little over 200 nef. I can get about 350 using both cards. It's quick and easy to make jpegs anyway.
I found another reason to try to get the exposure right in camera. View and Capture both only seem to allow + or - 2EV for exposure compensation.
I stuck the sb900 on the camera lastnight. seems to work really well in full auto mode. I'll work on learning to use the flash once I learn to use the camera. The built in flash does it's job ok but bouncing it off the ceiling is nice, lights up the whole room. Glad I got the sb900. I didn't get to try it off camera. I might try that tonight.