again many thanks to those that post here and those that sent me emails. I have opted to go the robotic route for all the same reasons that those who have gone this route after looking into all the other treatments. I did have to "interview" several surgeons before making my selection, which for anyone new in this journey, I highly incourage and recommend that you do so. Honestly once you have a good understanding of the extent of your cancer, the standard prognosis based on the biopsy of your cancer...talking with the surgeons becomes much easier as you can ask the pertinent questions related to your own treatment plan instead of getting the standard run-of-the-mill discussion based on statistics (I hate statistics..but then they can and will influence the decision making process).
Interesting as I read some different view points from the other posts...my surgeon set me up for a bone scan and not because of fear of the cancer having spread, but to provide a solid base line for down the road. Much like having a base line for PSA. I thought that was interesting and honestly much appreciated. Granted he assured me that at my stage and Gleason it would be negative and most surgeons find it unnecessary at this stage, but his thoughts were that it would be easier to interpret a new scan down the road if needed and decide what had changed with a good base line scan to start with. (I believe that this is a very good thing for everyone to have regardless of gleason score or PSA level or staging. Just my two cents worth)

As far as lymph nodes...yes a few will be taken as part of the surgery (I think he said five) which he also expects also to be normal, but again makes for a good base line down the road.