Hi Robb, congratulations on your new tablet and welcome to the forum. I'm moving your thread to the Android Tablet Q&A section for you, where more people are likely to join the discussion and try to help you. Hopefully, someone there will be able to figure out what the problem is with the storage. Good luck!
Not really sure what your problem is but you might have to move applications from your Tablet to your Micro SD card. You do that under setings/Application management.