So last season I had a set of marker bindings that I had bent the brakes out on to clear my K2 Public Enemies.  These brakes ended up getting really beat up from what I assumed was the adverse effects of bending them up, and eventually they just wouldn't hold together and kept getting mangled up on botched landings.  So I changed over to a set of Rossignol Scratch 200 bindings with wide brakes.  Problem solved... Until earlier this evening when I messed up a 180, my left ski popped off, the brake snapped in two, flew off the ski, and the ski proceeded to finish the run without me.  Somehow I also get the feeling that the brake gets largely overlooked on ski binding designs, and getting top dollar bindings would still give me the same crappy brakes.  Is it generally acceptable to do some type of a strap setup for skis not unlike snowblades as opposed to brakes?  Any danger with this?  And if so, where can I buy something that will bolt into place in place of the brake just so my boot is resting on something solid where the brake would normally go?  I'm just tired of these stupid brakes self destructing on a rough landing and rendering my skis unusable, and then shelling out about $40 for a special order replacement brake that's just waiting to come apart on me again.