I've recently discovered an easy configuration option for sudo to make the timeout a little longer.
Just add the following line to your /etc/sudoers config file:
Defaults:your_username_here timestamp_timeout=900
(using your actual system username instead of "your_username_here")
The number at the end is how many seconds you want sudo to wait before prompting for a password again.
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Thanks very much for this; I was getting really annoyed with it on my Mac. It seems from the man page that the Leopard version of sudo treats the paramater as a number of minutes, as opposed to seconds in the version your Linux distro provides (perhaps this information may be of use to others).
Cheers!
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