In my seemingly never-ending quest to order anything and everything for the new scope (don’t want to be caught off guard), I ordered the following:

• DSLR Focus — fairly standard software for focusing your digital SLR (DSLR); in my case, I’ll be using the Canon Digital Rebel (300D) — you can get the software from dslrfocus.com
• DSUSB connection for my camera — while I can connect my Canon Digital Rebel to my PC with the USB cable that comes with the camera, you are limited to 30 seconds or less exposure (and you need more than that for deep sky objects); this USB connection allows you to connect a USB port to the camera’s remote trigger and thus allow for “bulb” exposures (as long as you want) in the camera’s manual mode.  This connection can be gotten from shoestringastronomy.com which also has some other neat products and an astrophotography gallery.
• Also ordered the Meade Cable #507 (you can get this from a host of sellers) for connecting the PC to the telescope and be able to drive the telescope from the PC using the planetarium software; I should also be able to adjust the microfocuser through DSLR Focus and therefore automate the focusing of pictures.

I’ve also looked at ImagesPlus (mlunsold.com) and MaxDSLR (cyanogen.com/products/maxdslr_main.htm) for processing images and might go down that path eventually but I’m still quite the amateur so I’m holding off for now.