Don't worry - the mods will come by and sort it out at some point.
By "separate" sector, I mean to pretend like it's a separate segment when you do a multi-city search. You will actually get a single fare component from MNL all the way to DEN, but searching like that won't return MNL-GUM-hopper-HNL-DEN (or at least it isn't likely to) because the engine is optimizing on travel time and number of stops. If you search GUM-HNL specifically, the Hopper is high enough up to choose.
The multi-city search is smart enough to realize that your "breaks" are actually less than 24h00 and are really just connections, and stitch things back together afterwards.