I finally found it!
Since I made the jump to Ubuntu there was only one program that I have really missed, Notepad++. I used Notepad++ for all of my coding from XHTML to PHP with CSS in between. Granted I am no where near a master coder but I had grown a custom to its lightweight nature, great language highlighting and most of all the ability to fold the code. I tried running Notepad++ in Wine for a while but there are several problems with that. The biggest of which is Wine makes it difficult to access network folders.
When I initially made the jump I spent several days trying out various programs but never found one I liked. Since then I have been doing all my coding with gEdit. It has worked but doesn’t provide the best highlighting and has no support for folding.
Today I was missing Notepad++ and thought I would go out and look at it’s site again. Low and behold I completely missed a key piece of text in all my other visits. It turns out Notepad++ is based on Scintilla, a GTK+ application. I quickly checked the repository and was able to successfully install it in a matter of minutes. It is fairly similar to Notepad++ but with out all the shine.
Overall I am not a happy man, funny how such a silly thing can really lift my spirits.