Hey buddy, hope you didn't take offense, I certainly didn't mean to imply you were an " idiot." That was never the intention. In any case glad you got it figured out, turned out to be a pully issue after all.
I run a Gm alt on my Tracker with a trailtough bottom bracket. Differrence is Trackicks use ribbed type belts, and the GM alt I got had a proper pulley, just a 4 rib instead of a 3, but the belt lined up in the inner 3 ribs of the pully just fine. It's still working well 30k later.