Well, I am incorrectin my previous post, apparently! The dines are indeed posting, but they are not showing as such in my AA - RN account.

Checking my American AAdvantage account after reading the above contributions@:-), my dines through the end of September have been paid to American Airlines, even though they show as "Pending" on the "iDine" website!

Thanks to all for pointing out what is apparently happening. Weird! But, as long as they all post, and I am also getting the 5 points extra for rating, so all is reasonably well with the world. I mean if you paid me the five bucks you owe me, but you still claim you owe them to me...