Well I put it all back together and now my speedometer doesn't work. Argh. Oh well, that's just more of an incentive to get it open again if someone can tell me how to get these lights working. I'm thinking the speedo cable just didn't get plugged in all the way, there wasn't much slack back there.
On a good note though, the lights in the middle behind my air conditioning controls started working again, miraculously.