Export & Renaming  -  Newbie to Lightroom seeks answers.

I shoot stills for various networks and fortunately (or unfortunately) Aperture has been pretty good to me as an organizational tool where I can edit down images, maybe do some lighting adjustments if it's on a soundstage, then rename them and add metadata and then export them.  It's very easy to batch edit metadata, and everything gets put into the JPEGS and TIFFS that I have to deliver.  I shoot (RAW) on Nikon D3S/D4.  Aperture renames the masters......and the masters names match the jpeg version names if for some reason I need to go back to it and re-export or tweak something for my portfolio. 
Needless to say, on a side-project shoot recently, I decided to take the plunge, get Lightroom 4 and give it a try.  I like some of the image editing tools....masks and what not are great. And in my heart I think Lightroom is probably a much better solution in the long run.  Like I said, image editing --good results there....but this renaming/exporting business....holy crap.  I've spent three days so far trying to do this.  Need some of your expert help because my workflow that existed can no longer exist in the Lightroom world.
Here's what I can't do:
I can't make new versions or (in LR wording) virtual copies (say one black and white, and one color) of the same image and export it as an individual.  Or rename it in sequence.  It always reverts to the master's name.  This is very frustrating.  I re-order my images (to group certain scenes together) in the library/folder view, then I go to rename, and it's great except for those virtual copies.  If I've expanded a stack in a folder, it should rename all images in sequence....it's trying to out think me.  And to that end, it's probably working. 
But this is a big problem....because I now have two VideoShoot_32_10222012 images (one a color NEF and one a black and white NEF * Copy) and when exported, one is called VideoShoot_32_10222012.jpg  and the other is VideoShoot_32_10222012-2.jpg.  And of course is not where I want it numbered wise -- in my custom grouping.  So it messes that up by one image number.....I've tried different ways to do this. Including just deciding to take one of the copies out and only have the master. 
I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DECIDE TO TAKE IMAGES OUT OF MY LIBRARY TO EXPORT EFFICIENTLY. 
So, any pearls of wisdom?  Do I have to edit and change metadata (on the raw) in Capture NX2 and then pull into Lightroom?  Do I then export images as JPEGS, TIFFS and keep an archived DNG file?
Thanks --
Jeremiah

When LR is told to use the filename in its export naming setup; or when you use the Renaming option for the image file itself; LR has no choice but to repeat the exact same naming for virtual copies, because the same single file is being referred to - both master and virtual copy share that.
But you can include "copy name" within the naming setup at export, as well as the filename. That way, these various versions will each produce consistent, unique-named output (by default, new VCs are created as "Copy 1", "Copy 2" etc but you can then alter that as you wish).
Another thing you could do, is to include a sequence # or image # as part of the export filename - 001, 002, 003... -  image 08 of 36 - that kind of thing. But this numbering might easily then differ for future exports of the same image(s) from LR; which is not ideal IMO.

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