Doug,
Give Kirk Evans a call. A couple of years ago, he told me he'd developed a fix for the problem you describe. He was planning to market the fix in kit form but I assume he never got around to it. He did say he could reproduce his solution as a "one off" if someone didn't want to wait for the kit.
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