Thank you all agin for all of the help...
"get off a Speakon connector with vice grips" WOW, thats pretty bad, hope he didn't break it too badly..
Also, in response to Geoff, I have a newer venice (F model) and at the time that I got it there were no pre made cases around for them so when I had a flight case made up for it I made sure that it had a dog house built in. Having it has been really handy especially when a few months ago I had an outdoor theater show. The nature of the show was that I needed to set everything up relatively quickly and take it down every day, nothing really changed day to day so I could store the cables and mics which I needed in the dog house for quick and "easy" setup.