Firewire compatibility/Which cable to buy

I have a MBP with FW 400 and FW 800 ports and I currently have a firewire 4 pin to 4 pin cable from my previous computer. Wikipedia (maybe not the most reliable) says "A FireWire 800 socket is backward-compatible with 4-pin, but not 6-pin, FireWire 400 plug." I don't really know what this means because the 4 pin plug doesn't seem to actually fit in the FW800 port.
Should I just buy a 9 pin to 4 pin cable, or is there some sort of adapter that I can buy? Will hooking up my 3 year old Sony Handycam to the FW 800 port work faster than the 400 port, or does the hardware specifically need to support FW 800?
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)

You can buy a Firewire cable with a FW800 connector on one end and a FW400 (6 pin) connector on the other. Macs use 6 pin Firewire ports. 4-pin FW400 connectors are not the same as FW800.
Although you can connect a FW400 drive to a FW800 port with the proper cable, but it won't run any faster than FW400.

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