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I'm not worried about Amazon, or the testing method. All I care is that "dual mobi" created by Calibre will work on all Kindles, when downloaded from Smashwords. Amazon does their own magic from the epubs and it's working on paid download from Amazon on PW3 and Kindle Keyboard.
Fonts are not the only problem with doc & docx upload to Amazon. You can actually embed fonts in an MS doc, though I forget if Amazon uses them. Smashwords does for epubs. I wasn't aware that Smashwords use the Calibre API, certainly it's limited, if they do, by the fact that Smashwords don't accept docx, which works better than odt or doc for Calibre. Smashwords conversion from doc certainly doesn't create the same mobi and epub as I get from Calibre.
So I upload epub2 to Amazon (LibreOffice Writer, edit in ODT, Save As docx of final version for Calibre).
I upload dual mobi, same epub2 as uploaded to Amazon and ms doc (Writer Save As) for Smashwords HTML preview, LRF and PDB.
Seemingly Smashwords doesn't create short samples from directly uploaded mobi and ebpub, only from doc and only for those formats if the format wasn't uploaded.
The reason I stopped uploading ms doc or docx to Amazon was their advice to use mobi or epub, because their conversion stopped inserting page breaks. The same docx or doc imported to Kindle Creator on Win 7 (all freshly setup at their recommendation) does give page breaks. So eventually they gave up trying to figure it out and told me to upload mobi or epub from Calibre or Smashwords after they reviewed the ebooks in those formats from those sources!
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