So everything works great, except that when I create an fstab entry for the RAID device I get a couple of odd problems on boot, like:
"resume: could not stat the resume device file"
When this happens I am dropped to a root CLI and have to CONTROL-D to get going again.
This is certainly the result of my fstab entry for the RAID device. I've tried a couple of versions of this:
/dev/md0 /mnt/BFD ext3 defaults 1 2
and each time I get the resume failure.

This is not a huge problem right now, but it does need to be resolved because right now the array needs to be assembled and mounted manually at each reboot, thusly:

sudo /sbin/mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 & sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/md0 /mnt/BFD

EDIT: the mount has been added to fstab and appears to be working. If BFD does not get mounted it can be mounted thusly:
sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/md0 /mnt/BFD