This should be rather straight forward unless your 4.4L engine is drastically different from my 4.0L in the top of the engine fixtures.
Use a small flat blade screw driver to pry away four plugs on top of the acoustic cover. Remove four M6 nuts to remove the acoustic cover. There should be some foams inside. Remove them.
You should see this,
Next loosen four M6 nuts on the wiring harness enclosure to loosen them.
Use the small flat blade screw driver to pry open two plugs each on each cylinder head cover. Remove two M6 nuts to remove the plastic cover.
Now all bolts head and the coils are exposed. You should see this,
Remove two M6 nuts on each coil and unsnap the coil connector to remove the coil.
Remove 10 M6 bolts on each cylinder head to remove the cover.
I'd appreciate if you could take a couple of pictures of how the foam under the acoustic cover is placed. I think it has been five months since when I removed them. I forgot how to put them back together. I am still trying to start the engine after an fiasco. See this,
http://www.bimmer.info/forum/showthread.php?t=28076