If you shoot in Camera RAW with your Nikon camera, you will soon find that all photo processing programs struggle with the backwards processing. The images often look flat because Nikon wants you to use Capture NX.
The beautiful day has come where Lightroom 2 can have presets for your camera. This is explained here.  

Tip of the Post: If you ever have any issues, just call a professional at a place like Samy’s. They will be falling over themselves to tell you what they know.