LOL! I had the same problem when I replace my wheel bearings. It's basically very simple. Those bushings in there... well... they've been there for looooong time and they're acting like a spring. The A-arm don't travel all the way down because it hits the lower end of the mounting point on the subframe. Now you know how to take it off (with lotsa beating and crowbar or something for leverage), you can put it back on easy too. All you need to do is to move the strut as far as it can go (meaning way passed where the screws would go), and swing it back and forth so you can make it back in again. Trust me, with enough patient it WILL be done! Good luck! Keep us posted on what it looks like afterwards.
