As I emailed raffy, I tried the transfer system and got some stange results. At first it seemed to let me through, now it just get stuck in an error loop. I'm hoping the agents he talked to were wrong.

FWIW, the UA Web site still advertises miles-to-points on a page three clicks from the home page:

http://www.ual.com/page/article/0,10017,3862,00.html