Now I am wondering just what the sequence of events was, almost ten years ago in November of 2009 when my "Trunk Lid Jammed" crisis and thread all started.

I know the plastic pawl on the end of the emergency release was broken off in there, and now I think that, when I crawled in thru the bow/lid opening, I pulled the emergency release and broke the pawl.
I never realized I broke it and blamed the 'jam' on this broken part. At least I initially did.

But what I REALLY got from this video is that I was told to remove the PASSENGER light to release the pneumatic lock - and could never figure out how to do that. NOW I know, either I read the instructions wrong (and read "right" for "left", or the writer made a mistake. I will try to open my truck (with the lid closed) using this technique this weekend.

In the interim, I"m making this a 'sticky'.