You can't just pull up on the strings that hook your ledge to the trunk door? I've done that before, and it lifts the thing right up. Then again, we have different years & models, so that might be a difference.
Also, you can get your lights programmed for follow-me-homes, just ask the next time you're at the dealership. If I turn my lights off after I turn my car off, they'll stay lit for 90 seconds and then automatically turn off. If I don't want them on, I just turn them off before I turn the car off. That was one of the options in the whole "what radio stations should we program" email...
Still, that sucks! They do recommend that you should get jumper cables, though (so you can jump other cars, of course ;)