Well, my questions don't matter anymore.

From <48 hours ago, March went from several periods of 4 day award availability, to a couple of single nights here and there.

I can't even get three nights together now over the 10 days I have flights in September.

Haven't checked other months, but AA award flights in J to MLE are so hard to come by these days, the stars have to align anyway.

If it takes a couple days to get points into my account, even more options will be gone.

Those that got in early scored! This truly was the deal of the century. Oh well - very glad I didn't jump the gun and buy all those Hilton points for nothing.