Nikon tethering working OK?

All,
I have to shoot tomorrow with a Nikon D200 or D300 tethered to either my Lenovo running Lightroom or a friend's MacBookPro also running LR (don't know which version.) Need to tether for teaching a bunch of students about lighting.
I tether back at home with my Canon dSLRs, so I am pretty used to the general process but of course have never done it in the Nikon orbit. With Canons we have the EOS Utility which works reliably. I don't tether directly into LR with the Canon bodies as the process has a flaky reputation. Anyone with recent experience with this body and LR? If we use my computer it will be LR 3.5.
I assume it's a "watched folder" process, even in v3 LR....
All suggestions greatfully received.
jonathan7007

Although LR3.5 was an improvement, some people still had tethering issues. LR3.6RC appears to have solved the problems, so you might want to use it instead of LR3.5.
For a discussion that is more Nikon-centric, see this one:
Lightroom: Tethering Bug: OSX 10.6.8 + LR 3.4.1 [Nikon]
Also, the process is not like a watched folder or auto-import. Tethered capture imports files directly into a folder that you specify when you start tethered capture.

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