I wrote a content plugin that complements the CustomHeaderTag Plugin: the ToHeader Content Plugin. It offers the same functionality as the CustomHeaderTag Plugin. The difference is that the custom code can be included from the content composer (no html editor) of a Joomla article.
I use the CustomHeaderTag Plugin combined with the ToHeader Content Plugin: The jQuery javascript gets included in the header with the CustomHeaderTag plugin and my own custom scripts (calling jQuery) are included with the ToHeader Content Plugin. This combination is handy when you have many pages containing different jQuery custom scripts. It prevents making copies of the CustomHeaderTag plugin in the joomla plugins menu while it is still easy to upgrade the jQuery package.
See the
ToHeader Content Plugin page for more information and the download link.
P.S. the ToHeader Content Plugin only works with joomla 1.5 native and PHP 5