Slightly broken adapter

I've had this old computer for quite some time, and I estimate its value to be in around $600 CAD, however, recently the power adapter (sort of) broke, and it seems the power adapter itself is around $100 CAD. Additionally, I live in Japan, and the apple.jp store does not seem to even sell my adapter, and I don't particularly want to pay another $20 to ship an adapter to me. This is really unreasonable, so I'm looking for other solutions.
In any event, I say sort of broke, because the prongs sort of like, popped out of the adapter and I have taped them back in. At the moment it's working, but if you look at it funny, it will cease to work, so I think this solution will soon fail. Since it's just the prongs, I thought I could save on money buying the Apple World Travel Kit ( http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/canadastore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=E9 E41A4A&nplm=M8794G/B ), but then I sort of figured, when am I going to need to use all those? And if they can be sold in such a way, is there just a way to buy the U.S. prong head (U.S./Canada/Japan share the same prong type, and these are the countries I primarily travel to). Does anyone know where I could buy just the head?
Thanks!
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Well I have one right here with the swiveling pop out prongs? Taking it apart, breaking really, there is a lot of arc damage right at the swivel cam and input interface.
The input to the adapter body is identical with several types of AC cords that are very common. They all have a figure 8 looking female end. Some are lacking a symetrical indent but that can be carved out as are the type that have a flattened loop.
These are for several types of laptops including Dell, Compaq and IBM but especially HP printers. Also many types of Sony electronics use this same plug configurations. I'm always on the lookout for these types of plugs and always find them in thrift stores and garage sales for a few bucks.
Often they can be had for free because people have no idea what they belong to.
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