... not sure if others have been successful, but my strategy this week worked. I had a YYC-IND flight, that was listed as a passthrough fare with 1 stop (DFW). The flight # didn't change the whole way: YYC-DFW (694), DFW-IND (694). AA was going to only give me miles as if I went direct YYC-IND.

I cancelled the ticket, and bought a one way, YYC-DFW, and another DFW-IND (still the same flights and flight #s). It cost $20 more than the original ticket purchased the day before. I had two seperate boarding passes and two different seats -- according to the system I was not treated as a passthrough passenger. The EQP and EQM have posted and I got full miles (about 2250 instead of the 1550 they were going to give me).