This writeup was an enormous help, I cannot thank you enough! I had plenty of trouble with the bolts even though my car still has 100 miles on it. I shot out to Harbor Freight and grabbed a breaker bar and somemore extensions to get the bolts through the engine bay. Well, the 'breaker' bar did the trick:
WD40 was used, I could have saved myself some frustration if I was paying attention to which direction I was pulling (lefty loosy righty tighty) but they all came out after some choice expletives.