the ask-livejournal-before-spending-40-bucks-on-something routine

Anybody got a USB MIDI interface I can have for less than $40? Or better yet, less than $12, since it seems like I can get one on eBay for around that much? MIDI on my sound card is really unreliable, for some reason; it seems like it buffers everything in some terrible way and winds up gagging on SysEx messages and fast bits and stuff.

Also, I made a fun discovery recently: They killed MPU-401/MIDI UART support in Vista. Cute.