Hi Michael (your name was on the G-support thread)..
If you are in the US, I would take a look at
Google Tables (it is designed to be more of the workhorse you are looking for instead of a spreadsheet designed to work with number crunching, especially if you want as little scripting as possible.
Here is a
video by Ben Collins (also a member of this group) where he shows where he converted a Sheet to a new Table.
Good Luck!