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It was my friend's mom - she wasn't interested in fighting with the airlines, and had been prepped on the risk associated with the ticket long ago. Sh ended up using miles to get back that same day, and the ticket was (or is being) refunded.
This may be the first skirmish b/w FTer and MH RGN counter. Since then it looks like FTers were all able to board on RGN-KUL-SIN flights, although some were brought up "this is an invalid fare but MH will honor it" line, while others had no issues whatsoever.