I finally got sick enough of GoDaddy to buy a Dreamhost account and transfer (nearly) everything over to that account. Although I've only been using it for a few hours, I know I'm going to be far happier with it... especially the Subversion support. Setting up a post-commit hook as described below has made maintenance a lot easier.
GMail for your domain
As I mentioned in a post on Underscore, last week I got an invite for GMail for your domain. This is a new beta service where Google acts as your domain's MX.
GoDaddy, mod_rewrite Update
It looks like GoDaddy might have tweaked their .htaccess / mod_rewrite support. As I wrote in an earlier post, the way GoDaddy was supporting .htaccess was causing some confusion, in that even if you uploaded a correct .htaccess file, it could take some time to register. This might have changed.
.htaccess, mod_rewrite on GoDaddy
Even though GoDaddy supports mod_rewrite, there are some definite peculiarities about their setup, with regards to .htaccess and PHP execution. Hopefully the observations I've made in this article will be of help if you're coming across the same problems I was.