Ooops! I omitted the car info.
It is a 1990 300 SEL.

Thank you so very much, everyone is really helping me and I need it!

I note that even though the driver's door courtesy light and the dome light don't work when that driver's door is opened, if I open the driver's door with the headlights on I DO hear the buzzer - I thought from this thread that that would not be working either - what's going on here?

I got the instrument cluster out with no problem at all and thought yipee this is a piece of cake. Then I couldn't see any relays and I knew I was in trouble.

I saw 3 plastic clips on the bottom edge of the lower panel but that isn't enough to get it off - where else are clips or screws to get that panel off?

Then, from one of you nice posters I'm getting the idea that I will need to take the bracket off to get to the relay, while I was thinking once I saw it it would just unplug and I could work on it. Why is this always so hard......