You must have bought some Newegg "refurbs", eh?
. I've found I/O shields for various mobos on eBay but prices were high. I've been able to wheedle them out of the mobo mfr's before - it took me a month of "social engineering" but I finally got some for free. Just so you don't consider me a tightwad, I did offer to buy some at each contact, but they kept saying "No we'll just send you some." And they finally did.
.bh.