THIS IS REPLY IS PART TO THE I-DINE QUESTION POSTED ABOVE, SAYS THREAD CLOSED WHILE I WAS COMPOSING THE RESPONSE.

Yes this is a new and very irritating aspect of the program. I attempted to use these reservations twice fairly recently and swore off them ( at least the places so listed)
Here goes:
Restaurant 1: Went to the website and clicked the link for the time desired, site locked up but I was able to print the color tab indicating the time. Ate at the restaurant, miles did not post. Called idine they said to fax the confirmation and my reciept "and they would refer it the commitee to see if they can give me credit but I should not expect miles unless I got a confirmation on the website.."
Faxed twice no miles posted, gave up on that one.
Restaurant 2: saw a dim-sum place in Chicago listed near the Drake were we were staying.
No response using online link, phoned i-dine and was told " no more available slots at that restaurant today .."
Gave them a piece of my mind regarding the crappy system/options which seems to be appearing more and more with their new listings.
I believe the time is linked to the time of the "confirmed " reservation you must have.

So in short there appears to be limited slots per hour for some places and if not available and/or you do not get some sort of confirmation you get no miles.
The other really irritating thing about this is that most of these places are only available at non-peak times and on weekdays
Mike

[This message has been edited by MIKESILV (edited 08-26-2002).]