Just to follow up for the archives, the Autozone part did the trick. Now it shifts like butter. Easy install too. Honestly, the hardest part was taking out the battery tray and air-intake assembly (and that's a piece of cake).
If you're having problems with the shifter binding where it feels like you have to push the clutch through the floor board to get it to shift in and out of gear (and even then it's a fight), don't take it to a shop.
First, try adding fluid to your existing master cylinder (in the engine-bay, on the driver-side fire wall). If that doesn't help, you've got air in your lines. Unfortunately the OEM part can't be bled, you have to buy a new unit. Go to Autozone (or if you prefer, your local Saturn dealer) and ask for a complete hydrolic clutch release for whatever year/model you have (I have a feeling it's the same part number for all years). It will cost you ~$138 with tax. Installation is a breeze:
0) Remove the battery, battery tray and air-intake assembly.
1) Unclip the linkage to the clutch pedal (inside the car, under the dash).
2) Remove the two nuts holding the slave cylinder bracket onto the transmission (easily accessible from the engine bay...no need to ever go under the vehicle).
3) While pushing the slave cylinder toward the transmission, turn it counter-clockwise (you may need pliers to get a better grip) about 1/6 a turn and it should just pop out.
4) At the master cylinder end, turn the cylinder clock-wise about 1/8 of a turn and pull it out of the fire wall.
5) Then just finnagle it out of the engine bay (the brakelines were in the way for my '97, so it took a bit of coaxing").
6) Installation is the reverse of the removal.
As I understand it, if you have ABS (my car doesn't), it's a bit more difficult becaust the ABS stuff is in the way, but...