How do I map legacy _field_ names to better suited (read Cake-like) ones?

As mentioned in my previous post I have a pretty ugly legacy database
to work with.
Examples: contact_id is contact, contactid, kontakt, kontaktid etc.
In one table "ext" is actually the group_id field...

I want to map these field names so I won't have to use them anymore in
the application except for the model.
The problem is I cannot use views on the database (mysql) side so I'll
have to do this in the model.

However, I cannot wrap my mind around the thing.
$_schema seems to get overwritten by whatever is in the table and I
cannot see which callback would work so I can do this properly in the
model.

I cannot believe I'm the first one encountering this problem but I
couldn't find anything on the web :-/

Mind you: this isn't about table names, foreign keys or primary keys
that part was pretty straight forward and worked out pretty well!

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