What you want is a cintiq. These are super awesome tablets (although mine is going wasted as I sort of anticipated), but I'm guessing you don't have the budget for it.
What part(s) of the bamboo do you not like?
The intuos5 is still really new right? Might be a good idea to wait it out for a while to see what happens.
that's a "Ch" pronounced as a "K"
Computer skills I should have:
Objective C, C#, Java, MEL. Python, C++, XML, JavaScript, XSLT, HTML, SQL, CSS, FXScript, Clips, SOAR, ActionScript, OpenGL, DirectX
Maya, XSI, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Motion, Illustrator, Flash, Swift3D