Congratulations! Glad to hear this.

Well, I emailed the second QR agent I'd dealt with back on the 25th, and almost instantly got a response from a new person. She said they had sent me an email on the 26th. I have again searched my inbox, trash, spam and can't locate it. But the fact that Award Wallet has it means they must have sent it. Anyway, they want specific flights and dates! Of course, not so simple since I want to change cities (not go to LHR). The original itinerary was CPT-DOH-Europe-NA-Asia-HKG-CPT. They didn't want to ticket it because backtracking is never permitted. Now I DO want to "backtrack" as allowed in rule 3.2.2. (HKG-DOH-CPT) I did tell them if they felt they couldn't ticket the new itinerary without further ado, to just go ahead and process the one they did approve. They wanted to know if I wanted my HKG stop to be on the inbound or outbound leg.
I still don't know why I couldn't ticket with BA, and I don't have a price from QR yet.
Anyway, fingers crossed that I will soon be joining cphurley as a ticketed pax.