<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by IowaSun:
I see in United rules that a segment is defined as "one take off and one landing." When a flight is direct, yet makes one stop, it still shows up on my MP summary as one segment. What's the best way to handle the correction?</font>
In the case you cite above, you've earned one segment. Direct flights, where the flight number never changes, earn you one segment credit no matter how many stops along the way.
I've seen gleff's suggestion as a solution to maximizing segments on direct flights.