> I'll take another stab at it this weekend, but if someone monitoring 
> this list has experience with programming modes and is looking for an 
> easy enhancement to make, this could be it...

Merely for fun: I once spent some time writing my own pascal mode but
never finished it.  I attach a copy (you simply have to load it and
do M-x pas-mode in the buffer you're visiting).  Tell me if it DTRT.