Buddha Bart, I gave up long ago, now I just get DB9<->RJ45 make your own kits from my local Micro Center ($3 ea) and build 'em myself. I can dig up the pinout that works if you'd like. With those adapters, some cat5e cables, and a crimp setup, you can build yourself a very handy serial port survival kit (all your roll-overs, Cisco adapters, other adapters, null modems, 9/25 adapters, gender benders, etc...). If you do a lot of work at sites with random gear, it's probably in your best interests to build a good serial survival kit... otherwise you'll always manage to end up stuck one adapter away from connecting two things together.
You'd have to really try to fry a Cisco console port. Don't worry about it.