If you want to get into imaging DSO's then you'll most definately need a guide scope or some way to guide. You can purchase another telescope completely, from which you run the guide scope. Here is a very inexpensive example of something that will get the job done.
http://www.telescope.com/Orion-Aweso...ge/p/24770.uts
You of course have to find a way of attatching the guide scope to the mount.
There is a cheaper alternative which i'm not entirely familier with called 'off axis guiding' where you buy this,
http://www.telescope.com/catalog/sea...ff+axis+guider and from which you can attach both a DSLR and an autoguiding camera. This setup is good but your autoguider must be able to find a bright enough star to guide off while you are taking your image.
From there you learn to use some computer software that lets you polar align your mount. There's this really awesome program out now called EQalign
http://eqalign.net/e_eqalign.html that really does all the work. Other than that there are plenty of guides on IIS.
-Casey