[dvperrin]

This Bower Flash came with the bundle when I purchased the camera from B & H. It's wireless,(optical) and has no connectors. Works for me in manual mode.
Knowing nothing about flashes, I didn't ask to have it replaced with something else, and I'm just now really getting around to trying it out.

Actualy jfrancho's advice was probably the one that cleared things up for me. I finally got the thing to work, although, I guess being optical, it DOES NOT work on the hot shoe of the camera because it DOES need the preflash to work, putting it on the hotshoe of the camera does not allow the oncamera flash to work, so I have to put it on a bracket, but still use the camera flash. As I was afraid, I need to do some experimenting to find the right exposure, but I think it's too much flash when it's on the bracket right next to the camera. It will work better as fill flash set on a stand, or maybe background, or even outdoors for fill.

I'm thinking my next step is to go to a better end camera without the on-camera flash, but that will have to wait until I can earn enough money from these shoots that I'm doing to pay for the cost of the camera!