Thanks, that’s helpful - not panicking yet but was contemplating investing another 60-90 minutes on the phone with MP. Thought best to ask first.
I asked about Silver at the very end of the conversation but apparently the Club card waiver only registered in their system on the 15th, and they thought it was normal for this to also take 7 days for changes to happen (I changed over from Amex Platinum specifically for this as we are moving from Melbourne to Manila in 3 weeks and will be flying UA - and *A - much more often).