Welcome to FlyerTalk! You may have better results in the future posting in the Mileage Run forum, or, if you have more specific UA questions, in the UA forum.
You may want to take a look at my post in this thread
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum50/HTML/008762.html
in which I've collated several of the links about doing intra-CA UA segment runs for maximal segments/minimal dollars.
You can see my trip report re my 8 segment, one day round-trip UA segment run SMF-SFO-SBA-LAX-SNA at
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum81/HTML/002237.html
[This message has been edited by cblaisd (edited 11-05-2001).]