Took me a few minutes, but I was able to get OS X new Screen Sharing (dressed up VNC) to tunnel over SSH.  Here’s what I did:

In Terminal:

1. Tunnel to the machine you want to connect to:  ssh -L 2200:localhost:5900 myuser@mymachine.com
2. In Firefox (or Safari, etc.): vnc://localhost:2200
3. That command will launch the Screen Sharing app.  Enter your password, etc. and go work on your remote machine.

One note:   You have to use a different port (doesn’t have to be 2200) than the default port (5900) otherwise Screen Sharing will warn that you can’t screen share the same machine.

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