Finally got the stupid thing through the auto vetted today. Switched to OpenOffice, took out every single paragraph footer, and reformatted the entire document. The 10th time was the charm.
I might have been working from an older edition of the style guide, but I swear I saw somewhere that paragraph leaders were verboten, but a 6-pt footer was okay.
Document looks like hell, but it'll pass the Meatgrinder now.
I tried to do the Smashwords formatting using OpenOffice, but I gave up.