okay $23 for an adapter is really expensive.. must be quite a special adapter then... over here i saw ordinary adapters for less than $5, the "cable adapter" i bought in a local electronics shop cost less than $9... though via ebay you could get them for less than $2 or $3.. but i didn't want to wait days for it...
i wonder what made the one in your local shop that expensive..
but building your own adapter is of course a good solution then
