repairing torque boxes

Just got done dropping a pile of $$$ doing the 5 lug conversion, only to find when crawling under the car that my torque boxes have been "unpretty'd". The inner structure is fine, but the outer part that surrounds the torque boxes has a partial tear; 3/4" on the driver side, right on the corner of the box, and on the passenger side it is completely ripped; a perfect tear right up the corner of the box. It has even just started pulling away, there's about a 1/16" gap.
I'm already in the processing of ordering torque box reinforcements, but what else can I do to strengthen them? How many other people have had this happen?

Thanks guys. Just waiting for Rick to get back to me, and I should have those reinforcement plates in pretty quick. Is it neccessary to have a kit for the upper torque boxes, or is welding sufficient on a sub-300rwhp application? Also, would it be worthwhile swapping my current aftermarket control arms to ones with spherical ends, or should the reinforcement kit/additional welding take care of the problem for good?