Thanks to Larkware today for a link to a fantastic addin for Visual Studio... ASPX Edit Helper.
This little utility alleviates some of the pain in writing ASPX pages by hand, specifically by auto-completing the tags, and auto-inserting the runat="server" and id="???" for you.
Type this,
hit enter and it auto-completes into this!
Fantastic! And it works with VS2008! Thanks Derek!