If you need to have the paddles, I'm afraid that there's no alternative solution available so far.
If you just want the shifting knobs to be "left = down" and "right = up" you can easily do it on your own (like I did). The most difficult part is to find out at which side a soldering iron gets hot...
Here's a pdf that shows you how:
http://www.mbslk.com/files/artikel/S...ippenumbau.pdf
If you need assistance with german text translation, let me know.
Greeetz, Thomas