Last year my GF had points posted to her QF account by mistake instead of her AA account. TA mistake as well. She phoned QF and explained. IIRC she had to send in all the boarding passes and the points were debited from QF and placed on her AA account.
Not identical but similar situation to yours. Just letting you know its possible to get the points moved, even to another airline.
[Sorry didn't read this closely enough, thought you were talking about QF and not AA]
[This message has been edited by manfromoz (edited 08-19-2003).]