By cables do you mean the gear selector cables? Because they connect the gear lever to the gearbox (about 1m forward and around to the left) nothing to do with the clutch, the clutch is hydrolic, that's why the bl**dy service guys at Wollongong don't want to play with mine, I told them is was a small adjustment that was needed to the clutch master cylinder and they just said, 'if there was a fix we would have been told by TOYOTA..'
Anyway I'll get it fixed one day, it's only really a problem from 1-2 in lift for me. 40,000K service coming up and I think I'll organise it to go to Sydney City Toyota for that one where they know what they are doing...