Well autoblogs would invite the google penalty sooner or later. But if they are penalising sites with unique content for having affiliate links than thats just stupid. But it makes sense from Google's business standpoint: more and more people will need to buy CPC ads (most will go for Adwords) if they want to do affiliate marketing. Slick but sick.
Apparently you are right, google gave all of my autoblogs running adsense the banhammer last night. Might be because of this post, they looked me up?
Content Content Content! It's the most important thing you can have if your doing affiliate marketing but ESPECIALLY amazon affiliate marketing!