Effective way for smooth transitions, straight paths into paths of curves?

Hello world. I use Illustrator for five years now, but this is the first time I was really puzzled about a technique, so I was hoping to see if anyone had some advice on this.

I'm drawing a path that made the rounds of several circles (think magnetic stripe or the movie goes around playheads) in a configuration like this:

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(roughly path in red)

I want the transition between straight sections and curved sections to be completely smooth and without interruption. I know how to do that well enough if all "playheads" are at 90 ° or 45 ° angle to the other:

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But since the playheads in my illustration are the weird angles to each other, I get some kinks and weird transitions in the path like this:

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Has anyone else dealt with this technique before? Tips tool, or advice? that you may know? I tried to use the rounded corners effect, but the results are usually less than satisfactory.

I'm in Illustrator CS5 on Mac OS x (Snow Leopard)

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