Bad Ethernet Ports on T61 Laptops

We have 175 T61p laptops and have had multiple problems from bad drivers corrupting hard drives, bad drivers causing lockups, bad video drivers causing issues with dual screens and bad bios causing lockup of PC's on Docking stations.  All of which Lenovo support said they never had any reports of but then months later they have a fix ready for general release.  Oh, what ever happened to honesty! So here is the latest issue.
Have you experienced a bad ethernet port on your T61 laptop.  We have found that around 20 laptops (11.4% failure rate)  that within a year the physical ethernet port on the laptop stops working.  Many times it will work for a while but if  you so much as touch the cable it looses the connection.  It seems that the problem is that the second pin from the right fails and no longer "pops" back up to the correct position.  Sometimes the port will work if you push the cable firmly into the port but if you move the laptop or touch the cable it will become disconnected.  The same cables work fine in other laptops and switches.
Of course (as with all the other cases) Lenovo has told us that no one else has ever reported the problems and our users who get new laptops every two years have suddently started putting phone cables into their laptops (when was the last time anyone used a phone cable, our phones don't even use them anymore!)
Have you had to have your ethernet port replaced?  Do you have a bad ethernet port?
Grab a flashlight and look at your ethernet port.  Is one of the pins lower then the others?
If so please contact me on this post.  I am trying to work through this problem with Lenovo but they will not honor their substandard machines! 
Thank you!

I don't the machine type matters. The drivers and the ports are the same.
We use nVidia Discrete Graphics and we have had a couple of those get corrupted - fixed by an uninstall and reinstall - but not at a higher rate than the Dell PCs we're waiting to come off lease.
We also have about 30 R61i's which are almost the same with Intel graphics and they have been pretty stable, too.
The biggest issue so far was the ThinkPad wireless card driver on the T400s cause blue screens when trying to change your Windows password but that is a known issue and going back to an earlier wireless card driver solved that.
The pins look fine, too.
What are they doing there to bend those up?
ThinkPad T61 15 Widescreen with nVidia Quadro graphics 6459CTO
Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows XP Pro

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