cntrl-shift-L will wrap things in link syntax, otherwise make a tab snippet for "href"

2) How can I shift selected text right and left one space at a time?

Not to my knowledge: I made one for wikidot.tmBundle - maybe steal that command

3) Most other apps allow me to drag and drop a text clipping to the
apps icon, and it will open it. In TM, I have to open the clipping,
copy, then new file, then paste.  Any workarounds on this one?  Oddly,
I find I used this feature a lot and I am missing it.

Along with dragging files to documents to insert their path... missing features...

* I am often opening tab separated files, and will need to open tabs
to 40 spaces

Big drag for me too: It is not possible to have variable tab stops - a really nice feature would be for tabs to learn the desired per-column width from the contents of the first line, but that feature is not implemented.

5) Given code such as:
$foo = 'bar';
$this = 'that';

This didn't come through email very well: I assume you want to align on '='?

cmd-shift-right arrow

6: I'd be interested in a vblog entry on the sql bundle too