> Some times the autorouter does that too, but other times it seems to > connect them with multiple disjointed short traces (blobs?) that > some time over shoots the pads.
I don't truly understand the autorouter. I know that it's a gridless router, so it often puts trace endpoints "wherever". It took a while to get the optimizer to figure out how to fix them. Try running the optimizer on such things and see what happens.
