Another Dead Battery Question

[nomadbehappy]

Ok, I was a bonehead and shut the engine off when I put the kickstand down at work this morning and then forgot to turn the ignition switch off ... I know better than that but got distracted. Since I had just wired my new driving lights up last weekend to my new fuseblock and did it so they could be on when the ignition switch was in the on position, but bike off .... yup when I went out to the bike to ride home tonight the battery was dead. Luckily I could push it into our maintenance area for the night, pulled the battery and it is sitting on the battery tender charging overnight.

Question 1 - What idiot designed the area to hold the battery. Could there possibly be any more connections etc to disconnect, unbolt the hold down etc. Good luck trying to hook up cables to jump the bike.

Question 2 - My battery tender has an SAE connector on it so you can choose what connection to make to the battery (ring terminals or clamps). If I connected the cables that have ring terminals on one end and an SAE connector on the other, could I leave those on the battery and then plug the cable with the clamps (SAE on the other end) into the cable from the battery and use the clamps to connect to another battery for a boost?

Question 3 - If the above would work, should the connection be directly to the battery, or could/should I make the connection to one of the unswitched spots on my fuseblock?

Mac scared me with what can happen when you boost a bike from a car that is running, so I figured I better ask these questions before I do something that may be stupid and expensive!

Thanks

Brian