[cottonpants]

I tried all of the above methods several times over, but nothing worked: passenger side always worked fine, drivers side would close, but not open (just a little click). And then one day a few weeks ago, I went to let my son out of the drivers side and I noticed that when I pulled the handle (as I have always done), the door magically opened by itself. Its been working perfectly ever since (knock on wood). So maybe there's some Toyota elves out there making their rounds fixing ECUs. (I still can't use the manual buttons on the inside handles - they get stuck in - I suspect that might be a symptom of the real problem, but I'm not touching them just in case I end up without the power door again...)