Thanks, Silver.
I think I am going to just take my chances and try to get AA to post them. First, enough people have said that L counts for miles for me to think that the rep was wrong (that was the thread I had seen). Second, even if I don't get the miles, I will get more by not stripping miles from AA, and I don't want 12K miles in an account that I won't use and that will expire anyway.