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Everybody's wrong xD
As I said, the Nook recognized the card from the outset, but the PC was only able to mount the Nook itself maybe 1 in 3 attempts, sometimes seeing the card and sometimes not, which created a cycle of plugging and unplugging and restarting and oy vey!
However, once the PC recognized both the NC and the SD card, I was able to write a bootable image to the SD card while it was in the NC, and move a CM7.0.2 ROM into the resultant boot partition, and boot to CM7. When I initially made the change, the Nook said the SD was not formatted and asked if I wanted to format it--obviously not. After I got CM7 installed and then booted to the stock OS, it simply saw the SD card as "ready to remove," and would not otherwise interact with it.
CM7 is running great, but I no longer have access to the SD card's boot partition over USB, so I can't install gapps/market (maybe it would have installed if I had dropped it in with the original ROM? ROM Manager seems to look for them separately on a recovery boot). I did, however, quasi-accidentally (okay, carelessly) replace my stock OS on emmc with Clockwork Mod Recovery, so I may have more options now. I also have Root Explorer installed, so theoretically if I could find the right directory on the boot partition (would it or wouldn't it be listed in Root Explorer?), I could drop the gapps zip file in there and do a recovery boot.
I have sideloaded some apps and set up the Amazon app store via the browser. I've already overspent my gadget allowance at least until next week, so I want to see how far I can get without a card reader, after which I'll probably just get a multi-reader to stick in my tower.
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