How can I remap my Caps-Lock key to Escape (for Vim) in Snow Leopard?

How can I remap my Caps-Lock key to Escape (for Vim) in Snow Leopard? Obviously, in Linux I can use xmodmap. On Leopard, I used an InputManager called PCKeyboardHack. But InputManagers are now broken.
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bert [Entry]

"I may be way off as I'm nowhere near my Mac to check, but would Ukelele be able to remap the Caps lock? I know you can remap the Caps lock using system preferences too, but I think the possible replacements are limited (again away from a Mac to test)...

You could also see if doublecommand has that mapping included, as reports suggest it works in 32bit kernel mode in SL at least...

EDIT:

There seems to be a PCKeyboardHack fork for SL:

http://github.com/bjeanes/PCKeyboardHack"

bert [Entry]

"Open System Preferences
Open the Keyboard Preferences
Make sure you're on the 'Keyboard' tab
Click 'Modifier Keys'
Change them to whatever you like."

bert [Entry]

"I use Seil to remap my Mac keyboard
pqrsdotorg/osx/karabiner/seil.html.en

Download Seil
Check 'Change the caps lock key'
Change keycode from 51 to 53

Note, you must also nullify the default Caps Lock key from your Mac Keyboard settings.

Settings->Keyboard->Keyboard tab
Click on Modifier Keys (bottom right)
Change Caps Lock setting from 'Caps Lock' to 'No Action'"