Thanks for the info Salt. I had seen your earlier posting and was pretty disappointed with this change in rules. Since my departure gateway is Chicago in December, I'm not particularly interested in making that a stopover!

Does anyone know if I book my trip so that HNL-LAX-ORD-YOW is all connections (after the stopover in HNL), but then while enroute I just make a date change to my LAX-ORD-YOW flights so that I actually have a couple of days in LAX, will I be charged extra at that time for turning LAX into a stopover, or would they decline the change altogether?

Thanks again for all the help. I must say I'm getting a little tired of OneWorld's rule changing without any warning or grace periods. I had thought this was the best RTW alternative, but I'm starting to have my doubts.