Most of my .vim folder and .vimrc came from andreiz and tomasr. I have it committed to github for easy download on any server I'm working on. http://github.com/bnmrrs/dotfies if anybody would like to check it out.
let mapleader = "," "
let g:mapleader = ","
map <Leader>q :q!<CR>
map <Leader>s :w<CR>
map <Leader>w :x<CR>
The mapleader is basically used to give your custom keybindings a separate namespace. It looks like that's what your doing here, but using the variable makes it easier to change later f you want.