Did you try POR or do you have your heart set on POFQ? If you go ahead and book it now and a code rate becomes available, you can call to have it applied. Just make sure you are aware that having the ressie already doesn't guarantee you that you'll get the discount. There is always a chacne that the category of room that you were hoping for will not have rooms available at the code rate for your dates. If you make the ressie now, you or your
travel agent can always keep calling back to check on the AAA rate too. people cancel reservations and make changes all the time so you never know when something may become available again. CMs have been saying that a cancelled code ressie goes back into the rack rate pool but that hasn't been my experience. I've had situations where someone was changing from WL to Poly at an AP rate. I had another client hoping to pick up 3 nights at the WL and the dates worked out. I called to cancel the first ressie and said I had another client who wanted to pick up some of those cancelled days and I had no problem doing that.
No, there are only a certain # of rooms per resort and room category per night available at any discount, be it AAA, PIN codes, AP or public codes. I think more often than not people have less trouble booking AP rates b/c they are available so far in advance.