I actually don't know anything about the prevalence of this problem
There's a rather in-depth article at http://www.wiebetech.com/pressreleases/FireWirePortFailures.htm -- worth reading if you use FireWire.
Thanks for your suggestions -- I'm afraid the machine in question was an iBook (silver, but an early version), so I'm stuck with the built-in port. But since all-up it would be over £400 to get fixed (yes, that's right), which is over half the value of the computer, I decided to get a new desktop instead, and keep the iBook as a FireWireless portable -- this gives me two computers and a faster processor for barely £100 more than the repair! Hence my interest in whether newer machines are less susceptible to FireWireFryer.
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