I noticed that I did not see any clicks on my amazon account, so I checked the
amazon discussion forums, and commented at
beckism about the url format.
It appears that, the shortest url format that was recommended at beckism isn't working, but a slightly longer format does work, and I did find this format officially
recommended by amazon at least once. Essentially, it's ending the url with ?tag=associatesid instead of /associatesid
I've updated the original xml file, and I'm also attaching it here.
For those of you wondering what I'm talking about, this is an AME xml file for converting amazon links to affiliate links and including a product picture as well. More details and a screenshot
here.