Burnt ethernet

I have a very bad feeling about this. My MacBook (22 mos old) started making that awful phenolic "burning electrical equipment" smell, especially on the left (ports) side. That was alarming enough, but now I don't seem to have ethernet anymore.
Any ideas? Any hope at all of getting help from Apple even though the warranty has passed?
System profiler doesn't see anything wrong and I can't tell anything is amiss, except that there is no response when an ethernet cable is plugged in. Thankfully, airport is working fine.
It gets worse: Some reading here in the forums tells me that dying MacBook ethernet is not unusual, although I couldn't find anything about the awful smell. The ethernet is on the motherboard, so a repair is a big deal. Basically, you either pay big bucks, give up wired ethernet forever, or limp along trying to use a USB-ethernet adapter.
Please tell me if you have a good idea. At this point I'd be happy to even make an accurate diagnosis.

I just wanted to follow-up and take any blame for this off Apple in my case. I've since learned that a powered "ethernet" connection was placed in the conference room to support a VOIP conference phone. It was unmarked and still carried the "data" stamp, even though it's now hot. Plugging into this fried my ethernet in short order, and that's not surprising. Needless to say, it's now marked.
I've just ordered the $29 Apple USB-ethernet adaptor supposedly for the Macbook Air. I believe it will work on any MacBook at 10.5.2 or higher. Hope so.
According to repair shop, the repairs would cost ~$750 for in-shop (overnight) replacement of the logic board or ~$350 by shipping it out for a week. The latter option could possibly repair anything and everything else they find wrong for the one price. I'm wondering if my yellowed wrist-rest and fading battery might be included? Wouldn't be so bad a deal for a one-stop refresh.

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