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I finally had a few minutes to play around with the VS.NET Whidbey expansion file.  After following Jay's advice, I came up with one that works.  If anyone else feels like making more and posting them there here, I'll make a permanent archive of them.

Here it is, in all it's glory:  A generic List template.

<ExStencil>
    <header>
        <title>Generic List</title>
        <shortcut>list</shortcut>
        <description>Generate generic List variable and object.</description>
        <category>Expansion</category>
    </header>
    <snippet>
        <declarations>
            <literal default="true">
                <id>type</id>
                <tooltip>List type</tooltip>
                <default>int</default>
            </literal>
            <literal>
                <id>var</id>
                <tooltip>The variable</tooltip>
                <default>myVar</default>
            </literal>
        </declarations>
        <code language="csharp">
        <![CDATA[List<$type$> $var$ = new List<$type$>();
    $end$]]>
    </code>
    </snippet>
</ExStencil>