OK, between the periods of being passed out from the aforementioned hyperventilation (

), I've done a little research. The programming guide says to refer to BASIC stamp manual 2.0c. I just looked through the entire 353 page thing and there's not a single occurance of the word else, or any reference to select...case constructs. The latter appears very similar to the QBASIC syntax, but that's another matter...
Also the $PBASIC directive doesn't seem to exist and the documentation completely ignores it, even though they do explain the $STAMP directive.
Given that the new RC code is dated 12-18-02, it seems really odd that they didn't post this earlier.
Anyway, as I said before, the default code doesn't even work anymore.
After reading the rest of the documentation, I'm a little calmer, as it says EduBot code and Full-size RC code are completely interchangeable, meaning RoboEmu should still work, at least with code written under the "old" style.
Finally, there references to autonomous mode appear to be copied-and-pasted straight fromt the EduCode, so it doesn't really give anything new away. It is definately there though.