Commiserations, but I'm with Barry:
Look at the upside.
For instance, once the base posts are in, shouldn't it be fairly easy to swap different top bits in and out? (If those suckers don't already come with some kind of a quick-release system, they damn well *should* come with one!)
Then you can have pretty white ones for everyday use, scary fangs for Halloween, a rubber-padded bridge thingy for boxing... Heck, if you wanna get back in the computronics biz, you could even get a convenient set of stainless cable-stripper ones! See whatta lotta upsides?
HTH! :-)
