thin affiliate penalty - worth a reinclusion request?

[elaineb]

Most of the pages rank well in Google despite having tons of affiliate links - each page deals with a different topic or product range and I manually search and add links/products from as many different sources as possible adding my own description etc - nothing is automated.

There is only one main page that links through to just one affiliate merchant (it's the only one that sells that particular product) and I would consider this a 'thin affiliate' page and completely understand if it attracts the 30+ penalty.

The problem is every now and then several of my pages will attract this penalty - and I'm sure it's down to the individual 'human' reviewer who assesses the page as a 'thin affiliate' - but, after reading all the posts regarding this, particularly Matt Cutts and Adam Lasniks, I'm sure they would consider that this site does add value and is not simply a 'thin affiliate' site.

BUT WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT?

the pages haven't been banned - so does the reinclusion request apply?

should I try and bring this to Matt's attention via his blog?

does Google have the process in place that they can flag something up to the individual reviewer that this possibly isn't a thin affiliate site and to not automatically apply the penalty simply because affiliate links are present - which I think happens quite a lot!

[kidder]

Is this whole affiliate thing becoming more of an issue? Is there a way to disguise the link? I think that some of our sites suffer because they are affiliate sites even though they add value...