Tiptronic button help

[oldgold]

I just completed the install of a new silver center console. It looks great. Everything came out of the car easily including the tiptronic button and shifter cover. I just put everything back on -- went great with one exception. I'm having a hell of a time getting the tiptronic button back on. I've slid the vertical shifter cover back on, place the cllip and spring back on, but I can't quite get the button cover to go on. So here are my questions --

1) First -- To put the button cover back on, does the key have to be turned on? Does your foot have to be on the brake to make the button engage (go down)?

2) At what angle does the button cover have to be pushed down to reinstall - straight, angled? Also, does the spring have to be compressed before pushing the button down to the seated position?

3) Also, below the tiptronic shifter cover (says P-R-N-D etc.) there is a spring device with a triangular piece of plastic that spins freely -- does this have to positioned in any specific direction?

At this point, I can't get the button to reinstall. I already have the instructions out of the manual and off this site, but those instructions provide a very simple and incomplete explanation. Any advice would be appreciated.

[oldgold]

Just got the shifter button on. The solution was the same as for a number of other Boxster issues --- brute force. A small rubber mallet did the job.