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xmenxmen:
Tracing it is probably the best approach here.  When I gutted an old Gateway server and re-use it for a modern atx motherboard, I basically took the front cover off and look where the power switch was and trace the wire back to the root.  Once I knew which wire it was, I just took a knife and divdied the wires so I can easly tap it.  Took a sound card to cdrom wire and cut off one end and on the other end, chop off 2 of the 4 connector.  Than expose the wire on the wire and tap the open end of the sound card wire to it and attach that to the motherboard. 

In your case, just divide out the power wire from the rest so there's room to tap it.  Tap wires to it and move it to where ever U want.  Repeat the same thing for the reset and light if you want.
xmenxmen:
Forgot to mention, the stupid Gateway has those one block connection as well. 

And for those that remember, it's the $500 Gateway dual 933 tower, which everyone used as a nice and fast workstation!!!
WLVRYN:
Thanks Xmen.  The only problem is that I really dont want to mess with the ribbon cable in case for whatever reason I cant get this working right.  At least then I'd still have a way to turn the computer on.  I think I'm going to go with Grundle's suggestion and see if I can get it working. 

Now I'm going to ask a really stupid question:  How do I determine which pins are wired to ground? (ducking and covering head for not knowing this).

I ended up getting an ATX front bezel wire kit from MicroCenter to wire to the pins.  I think it was $5 or something.   Its actually a nice little kit with wires for power, reset, sleep and three LEDs.   I had read about using the CD-ROM/sound card cable on another site and was going to go down that path, but this seemed to be much easier. 

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