Unfortunately for us consumers, it appears that you must now have both the apple docking station and apple cables. I tried the fix with an apple universal docking station and it still won't work. Major hassle, at least for me, since I can't even go buy the cables where I live. Need to order and have them shipped - just that one little bit of added expense.
All very aggravating! Right now, I'm leaning towards returning the docking station and sticking with hooking the laptop up to the tv.