Audio front panel connection to 10pin Audigy 2 ZS card head

This can't be rocket science. Various manufacturers (e.g. HP and DELL) produce an OEM cable which connects the 0pin card header on Audigy ZS sound cards with their front panel MIC and PHONES jacks.
There have been discussions on various sites for a while on this topic, but they all experience problems (e.g. http://audigy2zshowto.blogspot.com/ ).
The one thing that the OEM cables have in common is that the manufacturers' front panels adhere to the AC'97 front panel format (e.g. http://www.formfactors.org/developer%5Cspecs%5CA2928604.pdf and http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa/ftp/datasheets/intel/30234902_ICH6.pdf ). They don't appear to be using the Intel High Definition Audio alternati've to AC'97.
So, it should be very simple to map each of the 0 pins (on the x0 header) on the Audigy sound card to each of the 0 pins (on the 2x5 header) that the AC'97 standard specifies (and which HP and DELL use). OK, I know that pin 8 on the 2x5 is a "peg" and so there may be some redundancy on the x0 connector, but there should be a robust mapping that enables the muting functions to work properly and for there to be decent microphone performance.
So, what is the mapping? Someone from DELL, HP and Creative must know. (Let's make it simple as well, let's answer this like "when connecting the x0 to the 2x5 then pin maps to pin x, pin 2 to pin y, pin 3 to pin z and so on".)
Once I get some answers I'll also provide a full parts and tools list for people wanting to make cables of their own.

Hi Avi,
The Audigy 2 dri've should be compatible with an Audigy 2 ZS card, so yes.
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