SONY-VGNA broken clamp holding keyboard ribbon cable

Hi,
I live in Europe and have a Vaio VGN-A497XP, I guess in the USA was called something like VGNA190.
Anyway I just DID it!
Tried to detach the keyboard ribbon cable and BROKEN the little plastic clamp (one of the two 'legs' just snapped).
Do you know where to get a replacement clamp: sony europe would NOT sell any spare at all!!!
They just want the Notebook back for a fortnight and bill me a huge invoice for this little plastic (I think, by weight, a diamond would cost me less).
For the moment the PC is working fine because I forced what's left of the clamp (it's "leftlegless") back into the connector with the ribbon cable-in but I fear that it will all come apart when I'll move the PC around.

Any help would be much appreciated: the machine is great but I am so terribly disappointed by both the hardware arrangement inside the laptop (the design is such that the machine needs to be sent back to Sony for ANYTHING) and by Sony-Europe's support.

Thanks guys

 

I have the same broken clamp. I am wondering if you have found a solution yet?

The only solution I have read (but not yet tried) is to wedge something else in there like a piece of paper or radiograph plastic film.