The wood trim is removed with a plastic wedge or a cloth wrapped large
screwdriver.  It is secured to the center console with plastic clips around
the perimeter and due to age, it's easy to break a clip, so go slowly.

It's a good idea to unplug the switches as you lift the trim to gain more
access as to work towards the front of the trim.  The gear selector plate is
screwed down, but you don't have to remove it to replace the bulb.  The bulb
that illuminates the shift selector is at the very top of the shift
selector.

than being the results of chance (or of God's will, or
  whatever); and whatever may be left of wild nature will be reduced to
  remnants preserved for scientific study and kept under the supervision
  and management of scientists (hence it will no longer be truly wild).
  In the long run (say a few centuries from now) it is it is likely that
  neither the human race nor any other important organisms will exist as
  we know them today, because once you start modifying organisms through
  genetic engineering there is no reason to stop at any particular
  point, so that the modifications will probably continue until man and
  other organisms have been utterly transformed.
 
  178. Whatever else may be the case, it is certain that technology is
  creating for human begins a new physical and social environment
  radically different from the spectrum of environments to which natural
  selection has adapted the human race physically and psychological. If
  man is not adjust to this new environment by being artificially
  re-engineered, then he will be adapted to it through a long an painful
  process of natural selection. The former is far more likely that the
  latter.
 
  179. It would be better to dump the whole stinking system and take the
  consequences.
 

The light bulb for the gear selector is not located by the shifter. It is
located by the A/C pushbuttons. If you got lights from both side of the
pushbuttons, then it is most likely that you got a kinked fiber optic that
leads down to the shifter.