Thank you Guy and Silver for your responses. Been quite busy, so I didn't have time to respond. Guy, you are correct. Also sounds like you got the runaround when you called to find out. I had been told by two people that it was the continent, but turns out it was the country. It is okay, though, because of the route I will be taking to get back to London, Paris, or Frankfurt, wherever my initial flight will be into. I just arranged to do the flight back to BUD. Will save the headache for me. I found a TA that was willing to help me make sure that things were not screwed up. No personal offense to any TAs reading, but I have had issues in the past. Will charge $50 for the handwriting, if needed, but will back me up if there is a mistake anywhere. Also said they knew a few tricks and whatnot, since they deal with a lot of corporate travelers in bus and 1st, so we will see. I won't post the new itinerary, as to spare the bandwidth (29 segments), but I will say what cities the stopovers will be. I decided to go AA on the transatlantic, and do the AA miles program. Silver, I am also trusting you, and I put Papeete back in. I trust it will be worth it, but I also trust that there will be less expensive accomodations. If not, my big fanny will be wrapped up on a beach somewhere. Could think of worse places to spend a night on a beach, though.

BUD, SYD, PPT, MEL, BOM, BKK, DPS, SJU, BZE, LAX, SCL, CCS, GYE, DXB, LON, BUD.

I thought about it, and I decided that I would pick a few places that I really would probably not visit for a while, or at least certainly not for business. Now I need to begin looking for information on hostels and other cheap accomodation. I have never stayed in a hostel, so they are a sort of mystery to me still.

I think base miles will be around 90K. I hope to get an op-upgrade on the flight back to Los Angeles.

Thanks.