Ok, then I better try my hardest to win this pre-2001 9s Chorus RD on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...#ht_500wt_1154
BTW, elsewhere is conflicting information. In this forum thread (see below), someone is saying that they run post 2001 RD with pre-2001 shifters without modification:
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Arch.../msg01536.html