EMac power button broken off retaining ring!

Well, we managed soldered the broken power button cable I mentioned back onto the logic board (we did this by cutting off the connector and permanently soldering the cables to the correct spots on the board, BUT, the power button itself is now broken! Here are pics...
http://pics.livejournal.com/wile_e2005/pic/00056a89/
Behind the button.
http://pics.livejournal.com/wile_e2005/pic/00057fq6/
Retaining ring.
The cable is fine, but now it's the button that is the problem! Does this need to be soldered back on too, or is there some other way? Or should I shell out $20 for a new eMac power button?
It may be the shortened cable that caused this, and I am not sure how this can be worked around.

Is there a way to start the eMac WITHOUT the power drive temporarily? According to this quote from another website...
{quote} The only way to turn it on now is to place a wire (I used a wire twist tie.) that connects the Black and Red leads on the connector for the power button. This is done by placing the wire on the top of the connector where you can see metal showing. This will turn on the Mac. I would recommend turning on the option to have the mac reboot after a power failure and keep it plugged into a power strip that you turn off. (I use mine as a server so I never usually turn it off unless I need to do maintenance.)
So in other words, does this mean I could put a twist tie on the white connector thingy that goes to the power button retainer ring? Or is it more complicated than that?

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hi everyone i just broke my emacs power button when ii was upgrading the hd and the entire cord was ripped in half and need a way of turning it on by monday
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I'm in WA state, even if time weren't of the essence, freight is hefty on eMacs, I wonder if there's one closer cheaper than freight?
http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/search/sys/?s=999&
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http://www.americanlisted.com/wisconsin_49/computers_and_parts_34/g4_emac_200_16 562485.html

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My emac is a 2003 model, 1Ghz processor, and the power button kept getting dodgier and dodgier over the last year or two, so I started just leaving the emac running and/or relying on the scheduled wake-up to start it. Then my two-year old decided to shut off the power strip it was plugged into recently, and the battery is dead, so the scheduled start wasn't happening, and the button just wouldn't turn it on. I took the shell off to check out the power button, and when I tried to push the button through the ring it sits in the button and the little disc of circuit board that's part of it separated from the rectangular plastic connector piece that connects it to the cable.
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kfdc,
Here's a pic of the back of the switch itself with electrical connections noted.
http://s291.photobucket.com/albums/ll306/spudnuty/?action=view&current=eMacSwitc hcircuitboardback.jpg&jwidget_action=album
and a pic of the side you push with the cover off:
http://s291.photobucket.com/albums/ll306/spudnuty/?action=view&current=eMacpower switchactionside.jpg&jwidget_action=album
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