Things with intellisense support are fine, it's just stupid local vars defined right in the method that usually kill me.

Try the zloc intellisense script. For a better replacement, Andy wrote an intellisense script that when you type "lc" space, it shows you a list of all your local variables that start with "lc". It may be on our web site, but if not, shoot me an e-mail and I will send it to you.