I want to write pure HTML in my posts!

I’m getting pretty fed up with WP2.2 and is seriously considering going 2.0 instead, even though I need the CMS capabilities of 2.2.

Here’s the thing: I want to write pure HTML in my posts and pages. That means no auto-linebreak-to-br-conversion, no p-tags and no nothing. To avoid the auto-br-thing I’ve modified formatting.php so that $br = 0 by default. This works like a charm for posts and pages. Only problem is, I want auto-br to be enabled in the comments and with my little hack that doesn’t happen.

Here’s the code I’m talking about (from wpautop()):

// Begin pseudocode for wanted functionality:
if(this_is_a_comment) {
	$br = 1;
}
else {
// do nothing since $br = 0 by default)
}
// end pseudocode
if ($br) {
	$pee = preg_replace('/<(script|style).*?<\/\\1>/se', 'str_replace("\n", "<WPPreserveNewline />", "\")', $pee);
	$pee = preg_replace('|(?<!)\s*\n|', "\n", $pee); // optionally make line breaks
	$pee = str_replace('<WPPreserveNewline />', "\n", $pee);
}

Anyone know how I can make this pseudocode into proper code? Or any other hacks for making this god-awful formatting on posts and pages go away?

EDIT: And yes, I know there’s a million threads on this and related subjects, and I’ve been through them all without finding a solution.