The stuck door

After some research and help from the guys over at DMCTalk.com I was able to get into the door.

I found these two sites useful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92JJQG57t1s

and my post

http://www.dmctalk.com/showthread.php?p=239259#post239259

I took out the interior (here you can see the top half is out), http://www.dmctalk.com/showthread.php?t=17029 , it was hard with the door closed and the window inoperable, but it is possible. I'll just need to get some new little plastic trees. Also taking out the bottom half was difficult. The trick was knowing that the handle that has the pull strap is attached is attached to the door frame. The interior section, that needs to be removed, is overlapped by the edge of this handle. After you get the interior piece over the handle, then it comes out relatively easily.

After the bottom half was removed it was pretty easy to take out the rusted up and frozen solenoid. Once that was out the door lock button worked and I was able to unlock the door and open it. Success!