Gentlemen (and Angel),
God smiled on me today! I finally got a chance to tackle this project today. Let me start off by saying that I am not a DIY kind of guy. So take this as an advertisement that ANYONE can pull this off.
1. Swapped the broken glass for the good glass on the broken mirror. Took MAYBE ten minutes. Success on first try AND I got the red boots on!
2. Swapped the mirrors per the instructions above. Took about 1.5 hours. Would have gone faster, but it took a little time to figure out how to pop off the piece of plastic behind the door latch to get to screw #4. The answer to the riddle is pop it off from the forward side (that's where the clips are, aft side has tabs that go into slots). Then I had to figure out to pull the speaker to get to the wire connection as my van had the Dynamat treatment. Finally, I had to put the wires back to their original location after swapping them (Turns out that if you get mirrors from the same year van, they match up exactly. Plug and play.).
Thanks go out to Surfgeek for the fantastic write-up! Additional thanks to regist1 for pointing out how to re-arrange the order of the plug (even if I didn't need it). And finally, thanks to Paul for the outstanding description of how to swap the glass!
Next time you're out, have a beer and toss it on my tab!