It looks like BrowserUk has offered a soltuon to your original question.

As for running your script with a visual debugger on your remote server, is there enough bandwith and resources to enable you to run a remote X application? I have done that sort of thing a lot when debugging perl on local servers, where the server room is across the hall from my desk, the server is a huge 16 core Solaris box, and there is plenty of bandwith between me and it.