Need tranny help, Badly! Options

[Negative]

I posted this on someone else's thread but noone answered. Last night it was really cold and seemed alot worse. Don't know if it was the cold or just wearing more but it felt a little better this morning.
Last night I seriously thought I was fixing to break the plastic mounting bracket under my shifter.:

My tranny has really started acting up lately. It used sometimes be hard to put into first until I came to a dead stop. Now it's hard to get into any gear at all. It feels like I'm gonna break the stick or the plastic mount underneath. If the car is rolling it feels like it is hard to get in and then will just drop in. If I forget to put it in 1st before I stop rolling to a stop it feels really hard to get in but will go in. Someone told me I need to change out a plastic bushing at the tranny where the linkage goes and that it is due to slamming into gear when racing.

Any ideas?
Please help me out before i break something.

[bindertch]

It could be the bushings and it could also be the Transmission sincronizers. Easiest way to be sure is to check out the bushings on top of the trans while someone else shifts it (while parked and engine off). Also at this time if it shifts in fine then the sincros might be bad. Try some synthetic trans fluid and see if it goes away or gets better. I am in a cold climat and it is harder to shift my truck trans when it is cold but as it warms up it gets easier. Hope this helps.