Macbook pro charger- burning out.  surveyish?

i have already swapped my macbook pro charger out twice, as after 2 months they tend to stop working, and the problem is the little place where the wire meets the magnetic connector. i know that bending it ruins its durability and life, so i tried to not do that. i thought i did it pretty successfully, until my first charger burnt out after it got extremely hot. it would stop charging for periods at a time, and there were places in the wire, specifically where it met the power brick and connector, where you could see right to the copper/ whatever the **** material it is because it got so hot that it melted the plastic. the apple store has replaced it twice, and i am about to go in for the 3RD charger. does anyone have a recommendation on something that would hold the wire still inbetween the connector and full wire? and who else has had this problem? there isnt a problem with the mbp, its just the connectors suck as5 and blow out.

Ditto over here.
My connector-cable junction has always been slightly twisted. It's a more complex curve than just a twist, but wasn't perfect from the factory for sure.
The plastic jacket has now just torn this week and there's braided shielding and lots of unsavory bits showing.
Oh, and it started to singe a cushion it was touching. It was starting to burn.
Very antithetical to the "It just works" vibe.
"It just burns" is more like it. =:o
Seems like this particular Achilles heel didn't get much field testing before it was unleashed.
Wasn't the Mag-Safe connector supposed to put an end to the whole problem of a $3,000 laptop being felled by a $1.79 connector/jacket on the AC adapter?
I'm on batteries four and five as of this writing, so the topic of power management and the MBP is getting to be a rather sore subject.
Will try to swap it out at work or might have to belly up to the Genius Bar.
MBP 2.0 GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

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