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Thank you to all for the help. I apologize for not getting back here with a response very quickly. Just the day after I posted the question, my family and I were off to my grandparents' for Christmas, and then I was headed back to college. My father got home a day or two before New Years and just a few days ago got a chance to head to the basement and start debugging. That being said, it sounds as though your hunches were right on. I thought the SPDT (center off, yes) toggles would be sufficient and was quite confused when they didn't work with this wiring system (we've used this technique for years). So, in talking with my father, we figured there must be some place where the feeder wires from each power pack were touching or interfering in some way. Although we usually use electrical tape on all our soldered joints, I have been known to forget to do so. So, dad went home and followed the two feeder wires to their length, taping all the untaped joints. In doing so, he said he found two locations where they may have been rubbing against each other with bare wire. He also found at least two blocks whose wires could have been rubbing, causing a similar problem if each block was set to a different power pack. He then tested the tracks, and reported back that everything seemed to be in working order. I'd still like to see for myself (I am stubborn like that), but I described the issues I had been having to him in tedious detail and he said nothing of the sort was still happening. I am quite confident the issue has been licked, but I'll have to give them a test of my own next time I am home. Again, thank you very much for the advice. We appreciate it greatly! joel.
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