You're best bet is to ditch VA altogether and move to WebSphere Studio Application Developer.
It is seriously the best deveopment environment in the world. Inside of WSAD is a real WAS 4.0 server to deploy to. Also, it has built in XML editing,
JSP development, HTML development, and a Clear case plugin. No longer do you have to worry about bringing up and down the WebSphere Test environment in VA. The integration with Clear case is seamless, and it actually COMES with a single version of clear case.
Version 4.03 of WSAD is out now, and I have found it a little buggier than VA, but the upside is really, really good for WSAD. It is the mother of all development environments.