Thanks for trying to help. Yeah I tried smacking it six ways from Sunday but nothing helped. I got pi$$ed off, and pried the F[NAME] things off with a screw driver and was able to depress the buttons underneath without issue. I’ve had the system for 4 years now and only opened the HD panel twice and never opened the main one. No idea how they got messed up, but the latches were literally bottoming out on the case so nothing I did would have worked. Super frustrated that I had to break the latches off (they look like they could go back if I knew how) but I couldn’t afford to not get into my case. 
This is beyond frustrating. If the system didn’t cost me $5k I’d have thrown it out the window already! [URL]
Latch screw is out but still can’t open my side panels