I want to buy an audio cable for my dorm room setup and the cable that Im looking at is two RCA Audio cables and a stereo minijack. On the package it says that the cable is supposed to be used as the stereo jack going to the RCA. I was just wondering if it actually makes a difference and also if it would cause damage to my equipment for some reason.

No, either way is acceptable.

Yep, should work just fine. On a side note, anyone know where to purchase these for a cheap price. I need about 20 ft.

patch cables...

i get my cables from buy.com. 12 ft s-video for 8 bucks plus free shipping. also if y ou get lucky like me they accidentally shipped me $50 RCA (brand) gold plated component video cables with optical audio cable attached when my order (i checked it over and over again) was for a $3 miniphono-stereo RCA cable for a friend. so i told him his thing never came gave back the $3 now if only i had a high def TV..........

anyway, buy.com is a good resource. they have every cable you can imagine in every size ever made and usually you can get free shipping out of them