KCE-422i Alpine iPod adapter..anyone have it?

[Coldfire]

So I'm buying a deck in the next week or so, I'm leaning towards either the CDA-9856 or CDA-9857 by Alpine and my biggest concern is how to hook up my iPod in the best way...

the "latest and greatest" seems to be the KCE-422i cable which replaces the KCE-420i that had that crappy hideaway box...the 420i also had alot of bugs with being slow to search and I'm wondering if they've been fixed with the new one.

Any info is appreciated
~Coldfire