Macbook Ethernet Port 'click in' broken

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Due to a cleaning related malfunction involving a hoover, my xbox 360 and my Macbook being used as a ethernet-wireless bridge my ethernet cable no longer 'clicks' in to the port. If only every cable was Magsafe :( Thankfully the port still operates properly but the cable no longer clicks into place.

I've taken a look inside the port and it seems that the click in mechanism basically operates using two metal prongs that stick down from the top of the port. Everything appears to be in place but as you can imagine its tough seeing exactly what has gone wrong without knowing what it looked like originally. My current theory is that the metal prongs are bent into the wrong shape.

Could some nice person with a Macbook (I think a white one would be easiest to see) take a few decent photos at a few different angles of the insides of the ethernet port?

Thanks.
 
Thanks everyone.

Yep it doesn't look like aything has broken off the port however the port has shifted upwards inside inside the macbook. The top 'step' of plastic circled in the photo is no longer visible on my Macbook, so the cable must be enterting too low to click in.

A press down with reasonable force with an ethernet cable inside the port seems to suggest its not going to be easily bendable back into place :(
 
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