How do you change bulb in center shifting counsel on 1997 Camry?

I do not think that the light bulb in the 1997 Toyota Camry gear shift panel is meant to be replaced. I managed to get the gear shift box completely exposed. I removed the mounting screw at the top left hand side of the gear shift box and that was, as far as I could go. The box could be moved forward and backwards some but it could not be lifted vertically out of its' position, where I thought I would be able to examine the underside of the box and, see and, work with the light bulb mounting. I could not get the box out without coming close to breaking something. I finally had to give up on trying to replace the bulb. I think Toyota saw the flaw and corrected it with the 1999 models and later.

I followed instructions from these two web sites.

http://www.installdr.com/InstallDocs/Toyota/PDF/869037.pdf

http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/t100756.html