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We've been working with NAntPad since it's 0.8 beta release.  We haven't purchased the latest release (1.1), but from what I saw in the beta, it's a great tool and makes life a lot easier.  It helped us streamline the development of our build scripts.  Definitely worth a look:

Nantpad was designed to make authoring, browsing and executing scripts for the popular process-automating tool NAnt, quick and straightforward. NAnt is used widely in the .NET environment for automating the build process of software projects. The authors of Nantpad understand that writing and maintaining XML NAnt scripts by hand is not an easy task, especially for larger projects. Nantpad takes the hassle of NAnt by allowing the developer to take control of their automated processes with the sophisticated features of this user-friendly tool.

Nantpad provides an explorer-type interface to the NAnt build script. User-friendly icons indicate targets, tasks, comment, code, and text entities. Context sensitive editors facilitate modifying NAnt entities such as tasks attributes, CDATA code, comments and plain text entities. A task editor allows the user to simply and quickly add, remove or modify task attributes and a code editor allows the user to modify CDATA code entities.

http://www.nantpad.com