Sealed cartridge bottom brackets are certainly the way to go these days. The only inhibitor would be if you can't get the correct spindle length (or close enough) to work with your crank. You can easily find sealed cartridge bb's in Italian threading and in either JIS (Shimano, Sun Tour and most other Japanese cranks) or ISO (Campy and most European cranks) tapers too.

Just be sure the bb shell threads are clean and rust free before you install a new bb and use lots of grease, anti-seize or teflon tape on the threads to keep everything quiet and clean. And to prevent a recurrence of what you just went through.