@Michael,
This is becoming an absolute nightmare. I totally understand that its stemming from my lack of knowledge to achieve this in the proper fashion, but there isn't a lot of information out there on how to achieve good clean results with this method, unless you know of some tutorials or courses that go over this type of thing. I've watched almost all of Kuechmeister Swagger videos and he makes using networks and lofts look relatively straight forward, but its proving out that, that's not the case at all.