When are your reservations going to occur? I'm very interested to see the outcome of this, since it seems that as long as you don't change the reservations the status at the point you made the reservation is what shows in their system. I have three different marriott reservations upcoming and the reason I went with marriott was because of my current status. If I'm not going to get the benefits then I'm going to consider cancelling, since I dropped from plat to gold and can find rooms for better values at other properties.