I finally figured this out. Buried in the changelog for abcm2ps versions
3.0.13 and later is the line:

Move some non-standard decorations to deco.abc.

I hope this isn't old news to most of this list, but for anyone needing
!mp! and other "non-standard" decorations, it is necessary to copy the file
deco.abc to your music directory and strip off the last several lines of
demonstration abc code. Then use abcpp to #include deco.abc in any .abc
file that needs !mp!. It is also easy to define your own custom decorations
in your local deco.abc file copy. Now I can finally upgrade to version
3.1.0.

JF

Eric Galluzzo wrote:
> 
> Well, I can't claim to know why it disappeared, but oddly enough, !mp!
> is missing from the 1.7 draft standard.  All the others are there (!ppp!
> through !fff!), but !mp! is missing.
> 
>     - Eric
> 
> On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 11:16, John Fattaruso wrote:
> >
> > There is now a version 3.1.0 available on http://moinejf.free.fr/, which I
> > just downloaded and built. It has my page numbering patch in it, but still
> > no !mp! decorations. I need !mp! for my choral music, and I can't figure
> > out why it dissappeared from version 3. The version 2 changelog has it
> > appearing back in 2.2.7, and it is nicely handled in deco.c of 2.11.3, but
> > not in deco.c of 3.1.0, and running 3.1.0 gives error messages. So I guess
> > I'll be using the older version for now.
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