I think people have missed the point about my comments about the AMM extract:
The way it is stated is that regardless of how you land with a landing weight greater than the Maximum Landing Weight then the landing is not classified as either a hard landing or a severe hard landing...
(the word and is very important in this context)
Which raises the question - does the AMM say anything about landing with a weight greater than the MLW?
(I know this may seem somewhat pedantic but I am a programmer by profession and such holes in rules are something I tend to notice)