I've done all of the above.
Rear door panel removed, you be the judge:
Center console boot. First just pull the silver trim thing down and it should pop off of the shift knob, then unscrew it. Pry up on the silver and black trim peice and you should get here.
Next remove the cover and boot, cant remember exactly but I am pretty sure there are just some plastic retainers.
flip it over and release the plastic clips releasing the boot from the shift cover indicator thing.
Then flip it inside out and cut the zip tie, this will release the shiny chrome thing.
Then make it super cool like me.
As for the a pillar panel, just pull the rubber weather stripping away from the pinch weld. Then get your fingers behind the panel and pop it outward, behind the airbag you will see a plastic retainer that is keeping it from coming out all the way, get some needle nose pliers between the airbag and the metal of the car and grab the plastic retainer, twist it so that it will slide out of the panel, and bam you are done.