Insite, I'll work on doing that this weekend.
In the meantime, I went out again tonight to see if the top would move. Sadly, it did not budge, and neither did the clamshell. When I hit the button, top unlatched, and e-brake up, I get a momentary noise like the mechanism is trying to operate, just a very abrupt "Tunk" but no movement. If I held down the button, every two seconds or so I'd get that 'tunk' again and again so long as I held the button down, but no movement.