BTW, does anyone know the current mileage requirements for Europe via Asia?

I really appreciate everyone's advice and information! ^ I'm going to see if I can just get this to the point of ticketing, and after that hopefully come up with some kind of compromise with MP. 130k (like OW) would be fine. Or stall until I can get enough miles back into my US account, then cancel, rebook w/ US and ticket that way.

This was just a spur-of-the-moment vacation idea since all of my other plans for this year got messed up due to work committments. The upshot if it all works out is that there is great availability on SQ's A380 from SYD-SIN (but not the other way) - assuming of course that United isn't filtering availability. They've been able to find every other flight that I saw on the ANA tool, so so far, so good.

Thanks again all!

Sean