Hey, I built one of those scoop things a while ago. Originally, it had an Alpha 10" in it, but its got a JBL M151 now. No idea how great it is, but it was fun to build and sounds OK to me. Here's a couple of pictures:
http://cerchaos.homeip.net:1280/woodworking1.html
I finally glued the side on many months after it was made.
For what it's worth, and I know it's not much, I'm sorry about Brittany - you don't have any information posted with her pictures but that makes them all the more heartbreaking.