Script causing fade to black

I'm having a weird problem that I can't seem to work around. Here's what I want to do:
I have a bunch of menus that have quiz questions on them (7 quizzes, each with 3-5 questions, 1 menu per question). If the user chooses the correct answer then they go directly to the track that introduces the next question. If they choose the incorrect answer then they jump to a script that adjusts their score and then jumps immediately to the track for the next question (the same one as above).
For the right answers, I get a nice clean fade transition that keeps my background image (which is common to all elements in the quiz). But going to the script first fades it to black before fading back up to the background.
One work-around would be to just make duplicates of the tracks (or of the background alone) to be used for right vs. wrong answers, and use pre-scripts that differ between those tracks to change the GPRM. But I'm up against that incredibly annoying limit of 99 tracks per project (why? why? why would they do that to me?) so I can't make enough extra tracks to solve the problem.
Another work around would be to create two tracks (one for correct and one for incorrect) that each just had 1 second of background and attach a massive pre-script to each that figured out exactly where the user was in the program, made all necessary updates in their scores. But I'm already using each menu twice for different purposes, and am also up against the limit of 99 menus per project (seriously, are they trying to ruin me?) so I can't duplicate those either.
Does anybody know of a way to work around this? Can I freeze the screen during a script or something? Or any brilliant insights into other ways to fix it? I am out of ideas!
Thanks!
Julie

I realized two things that helped me to figure out a work-around. First, I was confused about menus being limited to 99 (I was thinking of slideshows). In fact, menus are limited to 10,000. The other piece of information is that a track can go to a script which then goes to a menu and it does not fade to black (whereas the menu to script to track did fade to black). Who knows why. In any case, this allowed me to make things complicated but functional. It's much messier now, but at least it works.
Still, if anybody knows how to prevent the menu --> script --> track from fading out during the script, I'd love to know!
Thanks
Julie

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