[StuBeeDoo]

That ^^^ is more-or-less what I was thinking when I asked the question.  I was just wondering about soldering the joints because I'm too lazy to take all the track up to do the jumper wire mod.

To be fair, I (currently) only have the problem on 2 areas of the track, both consisting of about 6 track pieces.  I guess I need to bite the bullet.