If you are willing to accept some advice on how to better deal with the R-09 fragile inputs and outputs, I will gladly provide some guidelines.
From the three available high quality CF recorders in the market (Edirol-R09, M-Audio 24/96 and Zoom H4), the R-09 is the only one using prosumer inputs.
It's also the only one with un-balanced inputs, with no phantom power for professional mics.
OTOS it seems to be better in other areas, like sturdiness, takes large size CF cards, etc.
You can't do anything on the phantom power, and only Roland can change that on a future model (if any), but you can improve on the fragility of the mic and line inputs. Get yourself an Y cable, with a metal 1/8" stereo connector on one end and two XLR-3 females on the other, wired to take balanced mics or outputs.
Now this is the harder part of my advice: plug those Y-adaptors and never unplug them again. NEVER!!!
In such way you will preserve those fragile connectors.
You can do the same with the headphone output, but this is also the digital output, so that may be harder.
Let's hope this helps.