Given the fact that AMR really has no useful / helpful how-to tutorials / videos and that its overview guide is wholly inadequate as to be useless, and after several hours testing out the 'trial' version today - of the 500 included directories I was signed up to 17 sites on the first go.
On the second go - after confirming 179 'email' sign-up attempts both in the software ("confirm" failed) and then clicking each confirm link manually, none of that lot has yet to change its status from 'yellow' to green / OK signed up.
Of the 17 signed up accounts only 1 site took the submitted article. The rest 'failed'.
One the 3rd go around, choosing the category to submit the article to, and expecting some spot-on categories to accept the relevant article, they all failed.
All that said, time to uncork a bottle of pinot and call the past couple of hours a disappointment... for now and until tomorrow.