Got the card out. It involved a thin strip of tape and a business card cut into a long slice to slide as backing on the tape. It made the tape sort of tamp down onto the mem card. A little bit of steady hands reminding me of my childhood with my old "Operation" board game, and I got that sucker out of there.
*trots off to go buy a silly adaptor* Brilliant of me to think it was like the 5 in 1 reader that comes with my XPS *cough*
Alls well that end's well.