Thanks everyone for your amazingly fast help! You all are all-stars! I ended up taking Wizmerlin's advice and going at the poor hapless toadie guns ablazin'. The crate thing was much to finesse for me. . .
It worked like a charm (except my conscience was pained every time a different toad villager called me Ukabu. . *grin*). Thanks again for the help and I'm pretty sure I'll be talking to you all soon.